Morning Walking and Sleep Disorders in the Elderly

Abstract

One of the main aspects of improving health for the elderly is the maintenance of sleep to ensure recovery of bodily functions to an optimal functional level. The elderly will experience physical, psychosocial and spiritual changes with age. One of those changes is the change in sleep quality. Changes in sleep quality is one of the problems caused by the degeneration process in the elderly. Determining the effect of morning walking on the latency and duration of sleep in the elderly. This type of research is a “pre-experiment” research with one group pre-post-test design research design. A total of 20 study subjects carried out walking interventions in the morning as far as 1,800 meters. Before the intervention is pre-tested, then the walking exercise intervention was carried out 5 times a week in the range of 07.00 am-08.00 am. It was observed and accompanied by researchers together with the research team. The intervention was carried out for 2 weeks and continued with a post-test given to respondents to determine the latency and duration of sleep by asking respondents to return the questionnaire filled out by researchers. The results of the latency variable before the intervention were dominated by less categories i.e., 50% but after the intervention the good category increased by 25% the statistical test results showed a p value of 0.001. Sleep duration which was initially dominated by bad category, after intervention the good category became 10% and has a p value of 0.002. Morning walking exercise influences the latency and duration of sleep in the elderly.