THE EFFECTS OF SNORING ON THE FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS
1Adana Şehir Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz, Adana, Türkiye2Anadolu Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri Fakültesi , İletişim Tasarımı ve Yönetimi Bölümü, İletişim Tasarımı Anabilim Dalı, Eskişehir, Türkiye Introduction: Snoring is a social problem and threatening family relations. In this study we aimed to investigate the effects of snoring on the family communication.
Methods: 50 patients admitted to Adana City Training and Research Hospital with snoring complaint were performed the effects of snoring on the family communication scoring scale.
Findings: 36 male 14 female joined the survey. The range of participants was 20-74. The mean and of ages was 45.08±11.88. When the knowledge of the participants of the questionnaire about snoring and education levels were compared it was found statistically significant.(p<0.05)
Conclusion: Snoring affecting all family members is a problem at a level that disturbs family communications. Besides it is not a problem that only affecting the person's physical and psychologic health but also cause communication problems both in the family and in the society.
Keywords : Snoring, questionnaire, family