Studies on the sleep evaluation under the daily life and the sleep improving care in the elderly persons

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23593466
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Fukuoka Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: MICHIKO Tanaka 福岡県立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (30249700)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAGASAKA Mou 宮崎県立看護大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (30332977) ; EGAMI Chiyomi 福岡県立大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (50541778) ; KONDO Miyuki 福岡県立大学, 看護学部, 助教 (90468306)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 睡眠 / 高齢者 / 主観的評価 / 心拍変動 / 温罨法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is first to investigate time-serially the sleep state of aged people under the daily life, and then, is also to observe the efficiency of using the hot compress care for improving the sleep state. One elderly person showed that life events influenced the sleep state by the long-term and serial investigation. During nights of higher sleep quality, the sleep time became significantly longer, and the index of the parasympathetic nervous system measured before sleep onset became higher, too, compared with each during nights of lower sleep quality. These results led us to conclude that the subjective sleep assessment was influenced with sleep time and with autonomic nervous responses, too. We further demonstrated that the hot compress care elevated the thermal sensation of the whole body as well as local regions, and inhibited the awakening degree in the elderly person. It might be speculated that the hot compress care promote the sleep onset.

Free Research Field

基礎看護学・生理学