AU - Moradi, Mina AU - Mehrdad, Neda AU - Nikpour, Soghra AU - Haghani, Hamid AU - Aalaa, Maryam AU - Sanjari, Mahnaz AU - Sharifi, Farshad TI - Sleep quality and associated factors among patients with chronic heart failure in Iran PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - MJIRI JN - MJIRI VO - 28 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2613-en.html 4100 - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2613-en.pdf SO - MJIRI 1 AB  -   Background: Sleep disorders are common among patients with chronic heart failure (HF), and it can have a significant effect on patients’ daily activities as well as their health. The purpose of this study was to assess sleep quality and its predictors in Iranian patients with chronic HF.   Methods : This cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 200 patients with HF in two hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences from June to November 2009. These patients completed a demographic questionnaire, and their sleep quality was measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Kruskal-Wallis test, t-test and Linear regression were used for data analysis.   Results : Seventy-nine percent of patients (n = 158) reported poor sleep quality (PSQI > 5). The range of global PSQI scores was 3–20. Also, a significant relationship was found between PSQI scores and patients’ age (p CP - IRAN IN - Elderly Health Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Center for Nursing Care Research, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. LG - eng PB - MJIRI PG - 1002 PT - Original Research YR - 2014