Effectiveness of Warm Footbath on Quality of Sleep among the Elderly

Sleep disturbance is one among the biggest worldwide health threats. Regardless of the age groups, people are affected with symptoms ofinsomnia one or the other way. To mention, the geriatrics. The objectives of the study are to assess the effectiveness of warm foot bath onquality of sleep among experimental group. Evaluative approach and quasi-experimental, non-randomized control group design wereadopted for the study. A total of 60 subjects were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. The subjects were assignedto experimental and control group so as to include 30 subjects in each group. The quality of sleep was assessed by Pittsburgh SleepQuality Index. Independent sample t-test was used to compare the quality of sleep between experimental and control groups. In theexperimental group, the mean post-test score of the quality of sleep among the elderly (11.73 ± 3.9) was much less than of control group(15.16 ± 4.24). In the experimental group the mean difference was 4.16 and it was more than the difference of control group (?2.26).Furthermore, in the experimental group, the calculated “t” value (t(29) = 18.08) was found to be greater than the table value (t(29) =2.09) at <0.05 level of significance, indicating that warm foot bath is effective in improving the quality of sleep among elderly people. Thelikelihood ratio and Chi-square test were used to find the association between pre-test scores of the quality of sleep and selecteddemographic variables. There was no association between pre-test sleep quality scores and selected demographic variables.