Highlights
- •As the types of children's chronic illnesses vary, the sleep quality of their mothers varies as well.
- •Nearly two-thirds of the mothers in both illness groups of the present study had poor sleep quality.
- •Diagnosis duration and wakeup for the care/treatment of children at night were the main predictors for poor sleep quality.
- •Mothers often have problems of sleep disturbances, subjective sleep quality, sleep latency.
Abstract
Purpose
This present research, mothers of children with chronic illnesses were compared with
mothers of children with no chronic illnesses with the aim of determining which factors
affect their sleep quality.
Design and methods
The descriptive-type data obtained from this research were collected from 270 mothers
of children with chronic illnesses and 197 mothers of healthy children between November
10 and December 10, 2021. All participants were asked to complete a survey. The data
were assessed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 25 and the chi-square test, Fisher's
exact test, t-test, ANOVA (Analysis of Variance), and Logistic Regression Analysis.
Results
The total mean The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score for mothers of chronically
ill children was found to be 9.79 ± 3.68 while it was 6.68 ± 3.62 for mothers of heathy
children with a statically significant difference (t = 9.075, p = 0.00). The fact that mothers wake up for the care/treatment of their children due
to the onset of an illness was found to be associated with poor sleep quality (OR
= 0.388 p = 0.017; OR = 0.178, p = 0.000).
Conclusions
In the present study, it was determined that mothers of children with chronic illnesses
suffer from sleep problems and that the sleep quality of those mothers varies depending
on the illness types of their children.
Practice implications
Pediatric nurses are requested to assess the sleep quality of mothers with suitable
measurement tools to determine what types of problems affect sleep quality negatively
when dealing with children with chronic illnesses in both clinical and non-clinical
practices.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 21, 2022
Accepted:
April 11,
2022
Received in revised form:
March 8,
2022
Received:
January 19,
2022
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