Managing levels of insomnia in psychiatric patients

Abstract

Sleep is important in homeostasis, memory, learning and wellbeing. Objectives were to assess the level of insomnia among psychiatric patients, to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme regarding management of level of insomnia among psychiatric patients and to associate the level of insomnia of psychiatric patients with selected demographic variables. Pre Experimental Design with One group pre-test and post-test design was used. Purposive sampling technique was applied and thirty psychiatric patients were selected. Insomnia severity index tool was used for data collection. Structured teaching programme on management of insomnia for a period of 30 minutes included sleep wave cycle, factors affecting sleep, sleep disturbances and sleep promotion measures. In the pre-test, 46.6% patients have sub threshold, 36.6% have moderate level and 16.7% have severe level of insomnia. In the post-test, 20% patients have no significant insomnia, 60% have sub threshold and 20% have moderate insomnia. Table 4 shows that statistically signified improvement in psychiatric patients after the intervention. The mean and the standard deviation of pre-test level of insomnia is 15.16± 2.78 respectively whereas in the psot-test it was 10.53±2.65 respectively. The t-value was 8.0793 at p>0.001. It shows that structured teaching programme on mangement of level of insomnia was effective to reduce the level of insomnia among psychiatric patients. Thus, there was a statistically significant improvement between pre and post-test level of insomnia among psychiatric patients.