الفهرس 
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Abstract
Elderly patients have osteoarthritis pain who suffering from Sleep latency, difficulty maintaining sleep, sleep fragmentation and early morning are all symptoms of poor sleep. The aim of this study was to assess sleep quality in elderly patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Design: A descriptive research design was used for conducted this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic of Fayoum General Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample was used in this study and included 169 of elderly patients with osteoarthritis. Tools; Tool I: A structural interviewing questionnaire (demographic characteristics, past and present medical history and patients’ knowledge about osteoarthritis). Tool II: Two standardized tools; Part I- Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index to assess sleep quality. Part II- The Visual Analog Pain Scale to assess pain severity. Results: (90.9%) of patients with osteoarthritis were found to have poor sleep quality, 80% had unsatisfactory knowledge, 92.9% of females were having poor sleep more than men. 60 % of patients had severe pain (VAS > 7). 55.7% of them had sleep latency, 59.2% had short sleep duration. Statistically significant relation between total knowledge, sleep quality and pain with p value (p=0.001*). Conclusion: The pain significantly disturbed sleep quality in most of patients and had sleep difficulties (early morning, sleep onset latency and sleep to short duration), had unsatisfactory knowledge about osteoarthritis. A statistically significant relation between total knowledge, sleep quality and pain. Recommendation: The study recommended Health education programs should be provided to all patients attending the orthopedic clinics to raise public awareness about osteoarthritis, further researches and educational activities are needed on a wide range particularly in the area of elderly’s lifestyle changes to improve self-management and prevent sleep problems related to osteoarthritis.