Relationship Between Anxiety of COVID-19 and Sleep Quality of Older Persons
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This correlational descriptive research aimed to investigate 1) COVID-19 anxiety and sleep quality of older persons and 2) the relationship between COVID-19 anxiety and sleep quality among older adults. Participants were older persons who had been infected with COVID-19, living in Kamphangphet province, Thailand. The 84 participants were selected using the multi-stage random and snowball sampling methods from August to September 2023. The research instruments used in this study were a demographic data recording form, the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale-5, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, which had reliability values 0.83 and 0.85, respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank correlation. Results demonstrated that all participants had no anxiety toward COVID-19 (X- = 0.57, SD = 1.30), and 77.23% had poor sleep quality. Anxiety related to COVID-19 was moderately and positively correlated with sleep quality (r = 0.48), achieving statistical significance with a p-value of less than .01.
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