Perception of sleep quality among cardiac surgery patients in intensive care unit

Abstract

          Sleep quality is important factor to recover critical patient. So nurses should give important to assess sleep quality of critical patient and nursing care for improved sleep quality of critical patient in ICU. The most accurate sleep qulity assessment tool is polysomnography (PSG), that is the standard sleep measurement, but complicated, difficulty and expensive. It is not suitable for routine work. The sleep measurement method by nurse observation or self-evaluation sleep quality of patient is cheap and easier to be used in routine work. This descriptive research aimed to study the use of sleep quality assessment and sleep observation pattern of postoperative cardiac patients in ICU. The purpose sampling was used to recruit a sample of 36 patients. Data collected by 1) nursing interview sleep quality at home, operative day, and first day post-operative based on self-evaluation sleep quality evaluation form.  2) sleep observation on first day post-operative by nurse. The finding indicated that sleep quality of the patients at home are very good. Sleep quality is likely to decrease after surgery. Every hour observation of sleep quality in ICU by nurses was similar to that of patient self-evaluation sleep quality.