Abstract:
Preoperative patients experienced increased number of waking hours, frequent awakenings, and reduced Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and total sleep time. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between anxiety levels and sleep quality in preoperative patients in the COVID-19 pandemic era in the Melati Transit Room at Bangil Pasuruan Hospital. The design of this research was correlation analytic with cross sectional approach. The population in this study was all preoperative patients in the Melati Transit Room at Bangil Hospital, Pasuruan. The number of preoperative patients on 21 July-14 August was 39 people. The sampling technique used consecutive sampling with a period of 2 weeks. The sample size was 30 people. The instruments used were the DASS 42 questionnaire for anxiety and the PSQI for sleep quality. Data analysis used Mann Whitney Test. The results showed that severe anxiety, as many as 17 people (56.7%), moderate anxiety, as many as 10 people (33.3%), and mild anxiety 3 people (10%), and respondents have poor sleep quality, as many as 27 people (90%), and good sleep quality that were 3 people (10%). The results of the Mann Whitney test analysis obtained that p value was 0.002 less than (0.05) so there was relationship between anxiety levels and sleep quality of preoperative patients in the COVID-19 pandemic era in the Melati Transit Room at Bangil Pasuruan Hospital where the higher If a person's anxiety criteria, the worse the quality of his sleep. This was because when anxious there was an increase in the hormones epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol which affected the central nervous system and caused a state of wakefulness and increases the alertness of the central nervous system which caused poor sleep quality.
