Sleep Duration and its Correlation with Functional Outcomes of Sleep and Physical Activity in Patients with Adult-onset Diabetes

Bacgrand & Sleep has an important role in body physiologic cycle but its advantages wouldn’t be considerable till the person experiences sleep problems. One of the sleep problems is sleep duration disorder which is related to diabetes pathophysiology. Both short and long sleep duration are related to glucose intolerance and insulin resistance and eventually with risk of adult-onset diabetes progress. This study was aimed to determine Sleep duration and it’s correlation with functional Outcomes of Sleep and physical activity in patients with adult-onset diabetes. In this cross-sectional study 220 diabetic patients were studied that referred to the Diabetes Association of Iran in at 2010. Simple random sampling method was used in this study. Data collection was using questionnaires personal information, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Functional Outcomes of Sleep. Data were analyzed using SPSS v.12 and descriptive and analytical statistics. The results showed that 44.6% (98 people) of participants reported 6-8 hours’ sleep of night. About 72.6% (159 people) of samples were sedentary. There was no significant difference between physical activity and sleep duration 98.6% (217 people) functional outcome scores of the total samples were ≥ 33. A significant statistical difference showed between sleep duration and the functional outcomes (P=0.059).At present study, length of night sleep in majority of studyis is the samples was at the range of recommended by American sleep Association (6-8h). so, it seems that, this is the cause of lack of relationship between sleep duration variade with functional outcomes of sleep and physical activity. But finally we can notice that, sleep duration must be considered at care of diabetic patients, for its important role in control of patients and their life style.