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Nursing home residents’ psychological barriers to sleeping well: a qualitative study
Family Practice, 01/13/2012
Herrmann WI et al. – These results show the high importance of psychological factors for sleep disorders of the elderly. Future research should address nursing home residents’ psychological barriers to sleeping well and the presented typology should be operationalized and tested quantitatively.
Methods- A qualitative research design. They conducted episodic interviews with 30 nursing home residents.
- Data were analysed by thematic coding.
- The authors constructed a typology of residents regarding their perceived barriers to sleeping well.
- The interviewed residents perceived traumatic memories, family problems, worries about their situation and future, disturbing events during the day, appointments the next day, anxiety and dreams and nightmares as psychological barriers to sleeping well.
- The residents could be allocated into three types: residents of Type I identified only non-psychological barriers, residents of Type II worried mainly about their current situation and residents of Type III suffered from traumatic memories and were easily disturbed by any type of psychological distress.
