Association of Insomnia with Comorbidities among Patients Visiting Tertiary Care Hospitals Lahore

Abstract

Insomnia is a condition that affects an individual by inability to get
sufficient quality sleep or problem in maintaining sleep that is important for healthy
functioning, performance and wellbeing. There is very scarce data regarding
insomnia and its relation with different diseases. The present study was aimed to
find out the association of insomnia with comorbidities among patients visiting
Tertiary Care Hospitals, Lahore. A cross sectional study was conducted from May
2019 to September 2019 in Tertiary Care Hospitals district Lahore. Interviews were
conducted by researchers to collect data through Pre-Tested Questionnaire.
Informed consent was first taken from all participants. Data were analyzed by using
Chi-square to find out the association of insomnia with comorbidities through SPSS
version 25.0. Thousand (n=1000) patients suffering from different diseases
randomly selected to participate, of which 43.6% were male and 56.4% were female.
Results of present study revealed that association of insomnia with the diseases such
as cardiovascular diseases (p=0.05), diabetes mellitus (p=0.001), gastrointestinal
problems (p=0.034), premenstrual syndrome (p=0.00), joint pains (p=0.01) and
prostate cancer (p=0.01) was found to be significant. While an insignificant
association of insomnia was noticed with hypertension (p=0.850), hearing
impairments (p=1.22), COPD (p=0.288). It was concluded that insomnia was most
commonly present in the patients of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus,
premenstrual syndrome, gastro-intestinal problems, joint pains and prostate cancer.