PERCEPÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE SONO SUBJETIVO EM IDOSOS MORADORES NA ZONA RURAL E URBANA: um estudo comparativo

Abstract

Brazil is experiencing an advance in population aging with an increase significant of its percentage every decade, but there is greater vulnerability to getting sick, that is, a predisposition to the disease who is aged, as to the main complaints of the elderly, it is noteworthy that refer to the quality standard of their sleep. Nighttime awakenings, depression and difficulty maintaining sleep, the non-existence of restful sleep and daytime sleepiness are frequent changes que surgem com o envelhecimento. Tratou-se de um estudo comparativo, transversal e quantitativo com objetivo de avaliar e comparar a qualidade de sono de 60 idosos do município de São Thomé Das Letras- MG. Entre os entrevistados 30 são moradores da zona rural e 30 moradores da zona urbana, com idade igual ou maior que 60 anos e residente do local há pelo menos 05 anos, através dos questionários de Caracterização do sujeito, Índice de Qualidade de Sono Pittsburgh (PSQI) e Escala de Depressão Geriátrica (GDS).After data collection, data were plotted in an EXCEL spreadsheet of Microsoft 2010, being built on tables and graphs to establish the results, through the ANOVA program and Tukey's test. Through this study it was possible compare the quality of sleep of the groups studied, with sleep being of higher quality present in elderly people from rural areas, with a statistically difference between the values collected