title: Effect of Sleep Hygiene Education on Sleep Quality in Hemodialysis Patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sleep is referred a regular, recurring and easily revocable state of organism which is characterized by relative immobility and significant increase in response threshold to environmental stimuli. Sleep disorders are common among haemodialysis patients.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of sleep hygiene education on sleep quality in haemodialysis patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study is a randomized controlled clinical trial. The participants of this study were 60 haemodialysis patients admitted to the Dialysis Center of Shahid Ayatollah Madani Hospital of Khoy, affiliated with the Urmia University of Medical Sciences. Sampling was done randomly and the partcipants were randomly divided into intervention group (30 patients) and control group (30 patients). Sleep quality of participants was measured before and after the intervention by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Training process for sleep hygiene behaviours was presented to the participants face-to-face. The data were analysed using SPSS 16.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A significant difference in the mean (standard deviation) score for PSQI (p<0.001) was observed before and after intervention in the intervention group, while in the control group, the difference was not significant (p=0.704), In addition, a significant difference was observed in the mean (standard deviation) score for PSQI between the two, intervention and control groups after the educational intervention (p=0.034).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Sleep hygiene education, alongside other appro-aches, is a low-cost, accessible and practical method which can be implemented within a short period of time.
authors.affiliation: MSc Candidate of Nursing, Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran .
authors.forename: Farzaneh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Soleimani
authors.affiliation: PhD Candidate of Nursing, Trauma Research Center and Faculty of Nursing, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences , Tehran; Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran .
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Motaarefi
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Medical-surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Holistic Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences , Shahrekord, Iran .
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasanpour-Dehkordi
keywords: Renal dialyses; Sleep disorders; Sleep hygiene training; State of sleep