Effectiveness of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Sleep Quality of Nurses

This study aimed to investigate the effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy on the sleep quality and personality traits of nurses. The present study is a quantitative research of a pretest-posttest quasiexperimental type with a control group. The statistical population were nurses with sleep disorder in the city of Tehran. In this study, the targeted sampling method was used and female nurses who referred to psychological clinic due to sleep disorders were studied. After completion of questionnaire female nurses were selected who obtained a higher score in the field of sleep disorders. They were divided into three 12-individual groups and were randomly put in three groups of control, experimental, and placebo. The members of experimental group participated in group counseling of cognitive behavior therapy every week for 120 minutes. Then, posttest was given to each of three groups of experimental, control, and placebo. The instrument in this study was Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). (Bagheri et al. 2006 with the reliability of 0.81). Analyses of data were done using SPSS software version 19. Covariance test was used for testing hypotheses. The results of the present research showed that group cognitive behavioral therapy has led to nurses’ sleep quality improvement (0.582)

Keywords:

Sleep Quality , Nurses , Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy