Reference:
Chien PL, SU HF, Hsieh PC et al. Sleep Quality among Female Hospital Staff Nurses. Sleep Disord 2013; Article ID 283490 DOI: 10.1155/2013/283490
Objectives:
To investigate sleep quality of hospital staff nurses, both by subjective questionnaire and objectively by CardioPulmonary coupling (CPC).
Conclusions:
Among the staff nurses, 75.8% (117) had a PSQI score of ≥5 and 39.8% had an inadequate stable sleep ratio.
Practical Significance:
Both subjective and objective measures demonstrated that poor sleep quality is a common health problem among hospital staff nurses.