RT - Journal Article T1 - Assessment of the correlation between lifestyle and quality of sleep in elderly who ‎referred to retirement center in RASHT, ‎‏2007‏ JF - gums-hnmj YR - 2007 JO - gums-hnmj VO - 17 IS - 2 UR - http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-255-en.html SP - 15 EP - 22 K1 - Elderly K1 - Life style K1 - Quality of sleep K1 - Retirement AB - Introduction: Survey about the issues and problems related to elderly in order to improve ‎their quality of life of this increasing population has become a universal concern. Even though ‎aging is a natural process but many effective factors such as life style, rest and sleep pattern, ‎stresses and confronting them can affect this process. Identifying the effective factors is ‎necessary for improving elderly quality of life.‎ Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between life style and quality of ‎sleep in elderly who refer to retirement center.‎ Results: Research findings showed a significant relation between life style and quality of ‎sleep in samples in ages ‎‏65-70‏‎(P<‎‏0.033‏‎), more than ‎‏70‏‎ years old (P<‎‏0.001‏‎), males (P<‎‏0.012‏‎), ‎females(P<‎‏0.007‏‎), married samples(P<‎‏0.014‏‎), unmarried samples (P<‎‏0.019‏‎), education less ‎than diploma(P<‎‏0.001‏‎), samples without a second occupation(P<‎‏0.02‏‎), less than ‎‏4‏‎ family ‎members(P<‎‏0.001‏‎). Personal housing (P<‎‏0.004‏‎), separate bedroom (P<‎‏0.01‏‎), retired from ‎social security (p<‎‏0.008‏‎), retired from medical universities (P<‎‏0.06‏‎) and presence of pain ‎‎(P<‎‏0.003‏‎) and pain during day (P<‎‏0.012‏‎).‎ Conclusions: In attention to above findings, it can be concluded that elderly can improve ‎their quality of sleep by changing and correcting their behavioral factors such as diet, activity ‎and rest, smoking and …‎ LA eng UL http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-255-en.html M3 ER -