Effect of Progressive Muscles Relaxation on Sleep Quality among Residential School Females Appearing Board Exams

Abstract

Adolescents is the time of biological and psychological changes especially in females, which impact on sleep cycle and internal clock of body. Due to screen time, exam stress and anxiety results in irregular sleep patterns, sleep disorder, sleep deprivation. Sleep quality refers to the satisfaction and how well a person sleep without disturbances and awakenings. Sleep quality can be good or poor, it depends on the sleep pattern and cycle. There are some factors like sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency and sleep frequency measure sleep quality. If talking about residential school females, they faces issues like time management, discrimination, physical pain, menstruation cramps, mood swings, anger, frustration and emotional disturbances which leads to sleep disturbances and unable to focus on exam. The main aim of the study is to understand the effect of progressive muscles relaxation on sleep quality of residential school females appearing for board exam. 30 participants with poor sleep quality were randomly selected for progressive muscles relaxation intervention. The result shows significant positive effect of progressive muscles relaxation on sleep.