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Background and Objective: Exercise-based
interventions have been used as an effective non-pharmacological alternative
for both prevention and treatment of poor sleep in clinical and healthy people.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of aerobic exercises on
sleep quality of chronic psychiatric patients admitted in rehabilitation
centres.
Materials and Methods: This study was a
clinical trial. The samples were 22 chronic psychiatric male patients of
rehabilitation centres in Ardabil that selected by simple random sampling and randomly
assigned in experimental and control groups. The experimental group has
received 10 sessions (each session lasted 45 minutes) aerobic exercise and the
control group received no intervention. Data were gathered with Pittsburgh
Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and analyzed using chi-square test and analysis of
covariance (ANCOVA).
Results: The results showed that the
post-test scores mean of experimental group were lower than control group in
components of subjective sleep quality (0.36), delay in sleeping (0.73), sleep
duration (0.09), use of soporific medications (0.89), daily dysfunction (0.09)
and total score of sleep quality (2.27) (p<0.05) and 19%-75% of these scores
variances explained with reception and no reception of intervention.
Conclusion: Planning of aerobic exercises in
daily routine of psychiatric patients admitted to rehabilitation centres can
prevent secondary and related problems induced from sleep disorders by
improving of patient's sleep quality.
Key words: Quality
of sleep, Aerobic exercise, Chronic psychiatric patients, Rehabilitation
centres
Funding: There was no funding for this
article. This article did not have any sponsor.
Conflict of
interest: None
declared.
Ethical approval: The Ethics Committee of the University of Mohaghegh
Ardabili approved the study.
How to cite this article: Atadokht A,
Mohammadi I. Effectiveness of Aerobics Exercises on Sleep Quality of Chronic
Psychiatric Patients Admitted in Rehabilitation Center.
J RafsanjanUniv Med Sci 2015 14(1): 3-14. [Farsi]
Received: 2014/10/12 | Accepted: 2015/01/27 | Published: 2015/04/19
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