Correlation Between Body Image and Sleep Quality in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure in the Sari City, North of Iran

Background:The present study was conducted aimed to determine the relationship between body image and sleep quality in patients with congestive heart failure.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, which was conducted in 2015, 290 patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were recruited using the simple random sampling method. Data were collected by demographic information form (including age, sex, marital status, economic, and education level), as well as medical form (including history of hypertension and drug use, family history of heart disease and depression, physical activity and history of special disease), Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-34) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Data was analysis by SPSS 20.0 along with descriptive and inferential statistics tests (Generalized Linear Models with Bonferroni correction).Results: Based on the results, only 48 patients with PSQI mean score of 4.31 (SD: 0.94; 95%CI: 4.03-4.58) had a good level of sleep quality. The mean score of the BSQ for the studied patients was equal to 122.47 (SD: 19.157; 95% CI: 122.25-124.68).Conclusion: The sleep quality and body image of the patients with CHF were weak. Therefore necessary to do an intervention to remove the background of sleep disorders in these patients as well as conducting a more detailed experiment to determine the exact relationship between these variables.