Insomnia among Attendants of Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital at Visakhapatnam
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 9
Abstract
Background: Insomnia is most fre-quent, under-reported and are often neglected because of lack of aware-ness of the impact of such condition in our daily life style. This study was therefore conducted to deter-mine the prevalence of insomnia and its associated lifestyle factors among attendants of patients of a tertiary care hospital at Visakha-patnam. Methodology: An institution based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from April to July 2018 at a teaching hospital, by face to face interview according to Ath-ens Insomnia Scaleby purposive sampling on a sample of 330 partic-ipants. Results:The prevalence of insomnia was 13.3% with a female prepon-derance (14.4%). By calculating bi-variate and logistic regression, we found that age > 40 years had 2.6 times and currently married had 4.6 times more chances of developing insomnia. Conclusion: This study found a sig-nificant relationship of insomnia with alcohol, tobacco consumption, married status, overcrowding, non-vegetarian diet, and urban resi-dence. Difficulty in sleep induction and frequent midnight awaken-ingwere the major complaints re-ported. Further community based studies are recommended to inves-tigate the magnitude and the deter-minants of insomnia.
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Sanjeev Kumar, Amrita Kumari, Rongala Venkata Manasa, Sai Chandan Das, Vishwanath Ghoshal
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