| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 護理研究所 === 97 === Health status, depression, sleep quality and its main demographic determinants were assessed in elderly veterans and their spouse residing in a residential military community in Central Taiwan. A face-to-face interview to collect data on socio-demographics, depressive mood (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale , CES-D) and sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) was carried out by a public health nurse through home visit. A total of 152 participants completed this survey.
The results indicated that the average age of them was 79.03 years, 26.1% lived alone, perceived themselves in moderate to good health , 34.9% were diagnosed with at least 3 kinds of chronic diseases, and 57.9% were bothered by disease-related symptoms. 38.2% of the participants were identified with depressive mood. In addition, 50.7% reported poor sleep quality. Results from the hierarchical regression analysis revealed that number of medication taken and severity of depressive mood explained 40.3% of variance for sleep quality. Our study clearly demonstrates that depressive mood is the main factor influencing sleep quality.
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