Author(s)

Emilie Crawford-Achour, Virginie Dauphinot, Magali Saint Martin, Magali Tardy, Régis Gonthier, Jean Claude Barthelemy, Frédéric Roche

Centre Mémoire de Ressources et de Recherche de Lyon, H?pital des Charpennes, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
Centre VISAS, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, Hopital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France.
Département de Gérontologie Clinique, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, H?pital Général, Saint Chamond, France.
Département de Gérontologie Clinique, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, H?pital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France.
Laboratoire de Physiologie de l’exercice, Equipe SNA Epis EA 4607, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, H?pital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France.
Laboratoire de Physiologie de l’exercice, Equipe SNA Epis EA 4607, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, H?pital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France; Département de Gérontologie Clinique, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, H?pital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France.
Laboratoire de Physiologie de l’exercice, Equipe SNA Epis EA 4607, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, H?pital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France; Centre VISAS, Université Jean Monnet, Faculté de Médecine J. Lisfranc, Hopital Universitaire, Saint Etienne, France.

Objective: Sleep complaints are recurrent in Geriatrics and are often attributed to physiological aging. The aim of this work is to describe subjective sleep quality and its impact on successful aging. Methods: Subjective sleep quality was evaluated by using the Pittsburgh subjective sleep quality questionnaire. Two visual analogical scales (graduate from 0 to 10) were used to quantify perceived state of health and life satisfaction. Objective respiratory sleep parameters were also collected. Results: 370 data were analysed (46.2% of males). The average age was 73.2 +/- 1. The level of perceived state of health was 6.9 +/- 2, and life satisfaction level was 7.7 +/-2. Subjective sleep quality was significantly related to perceived health status (p = 0.034) and life satisfaction (p = 0.005). There was no significant association between sleep quality and objective respiratory sleep parameters. Conclusion: The assessment of sleep quality plays an important role in the management of elderly persons and can help them to age more successfully.

Successful Aging; Sleep Complaint; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

Crawford-Achour, E. , Dauphinot, V. , Martin, M. , Tardy, M. , Gonthier, R. , Barthelemy, J. and Roche, F. (2014) Can subjective sleep quality, evaluated at the age of 73, have an influence on successful aging? The PROOF study. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 4, 51-56. doi: 10.4236/ojpm.2014.42008.