Sleep quality of the residents living in an apartment-type building in Bangkok area-A preliminary study

Abstract

Background Good sleep quality is important for human health. It can also increase the productivity of individual. Sleep quality may affect by the improper living condition, especially the indoor environmental condition in bedroom. The apartment-type residence become more popular due to the life style of people in an urban area and financial limitation. However, the limited space and ventilation of the room may affect the sleep quality of the occupants. Methods This preliminary study aimed to investigate the sleep quality status among the occupants of apartment-type building in Bangkok area. The participants were recruited through the poster and online announcement. Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index questionnaire (PSQI) was distributed to each participant. Results In total, 93 participant replied the questionnaires to the researcher. According to the collected data, global PSQI score ranged from 1-16 scores with the median ± SD of 5 ± 2.81. Although participants tended to have appropriate sleep duration at 7.00 ± 1.18 hours/night (median ± SD) but 64.4% of participant still had poor sleep quality (PSQI score >5), while 36.6% of participant had good sleep quality (PSQI score < 5). The common sleep disturbances which occurred at least once a week during the past month are bad dream (36.6%), body pain (35.5%), the temperature was too hot (35.5%), and toilet (35.5%). There were 9 participants reported the used of sleeping medication but only 3 reported the used more than 3 times/week. Our results showed that poor sleep quality affected the daytime dysfunction of the participants as 7.5% reported as a big problem. Conclusions Further study is needed in order to investigate the association between sleep quality and residential characteristics. Thus, proper indoor environmental management could be made to enhance the sleep quality and reduce the health consequence of poor sleep quality.