Sleep Quality and Mental Health in Elderly People in Indonesia

Sleep Quality and Mental Health in Elderly People in Indonesia

Background: Sleep play an important role in maintaining the quality of mental health. Previous studies found that, lack of sleep in elderly influenced their mental state and emotional wellness. Furthermore, those with emotional wellness issues were more likely to have the sleeping disorder or other sleep issues. To examine the correlation between sleep quality and mental health in elderly people in Indonesia.This study employs the Indonesian longitudinal dataset from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS 5), a set of detailed household and community surveys on Indonesia conducted by RAND. The survey includes the number series from the Health and Retirement Survey Subjective well-being questions sleep disturbance and sleep impairment all eligible subjects were from IFLS 5 and aged 65 years old or above. Pearson correlation was used to examine the correlation between sleep quality and mental health. A total of 1245 individuals were enrolled in this study. The average age was 73 years old (SD.=6.56). Among them, 45 % were male, and 55% were female. The mean score of sleep quality was 19.8 (SD=5.9), and the mean score of mental health was 17.04 (SD=5.0). We found that there was a significant correlation between score sleep quality and mental health total score (r2=0.413, p＜ 0.01).Result indicated that sleep quality was correlated with mental health in elderly people in Indonesia. Development of an early prevention program to detect and improve sleep quality and mental health disorders is warranted.