Factors Related to Sleep Quality Among First Time Fathers
Keywords:
Health status, Stress, Perception of infant’s communicated behavior, Sleep quality, First-time fathersAbstract
First time fathers experience changes in roles when taking care of their wives and the newborn after childbirth, affecting their quality of sleep. This descriptive correlational study aims to describe the sleep quality among first-time fathers and the relationship between age, health status, stress, the perception of infant’s communicated behavior, and sleep quality. The participants consisted of 112 first-time fathers who brought their wives in the 4th-6th week postpartum to the family planning unit at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital and the Health Promotion Center Region 1 Chiang Mai. The research instruments were the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Suanprung Stress Test-20, and the Perception of Infant’s Communicated Behavior. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of the instruments were .81, .89, and .83, respectively. Descriptive statistics, Spearman’s rank correlation, and point biserial correlation were used to analyze the data.
The results of the study revealed that:
1. The mean of participants’ global PSQI scores was 6.68 (SD = 2.69), and the group identified their sleep quality as poor. Participants’ global PSQI scores indicated that 59.83% had poor sleep quality (PSQI > 5) while 40.17% had good sleep quality (PSQI ≤ 5).
2. Stress had a significant positive correlation with sleep quality (rs = .334, p < .001), and perception of infant’s communicated behavior had a significant negative correlation with sleep quality (rpb = -.231, p < .05). However, age and health status were not significantly correlated with sleep quality.
The findings from this study can be used as baseline data for planning nursing care to promote sleep quality in first-time fathers.
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