The Association of Sodium Intake on Sleep Quality and Quality of Life of Hill Tribes in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand

Abstract

Cross-sectional research aimed to assess the prevalence and identifying the association between sodium intake, sleep quality and the Quality of Life (QoL) among hill tribes in Chiang Rai Province. Stratified Random Sampling was used to recruit 2,831 participants from eight hill tribes group. The prevalence of sodium intake more than 2,000 mg/day found that 90.67%. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) reported that half of them (50.6%) had poor sleep quality and most of them had a medium level of quality of life 72.5% (2,054 persons). The univariate analysis found that four factors were significantly associated with sodium intake: Adding sauce, adding seasoning powder, PSQI, QOL respectively. The multiple logistic regression analysis revealed the only low quality of life can predict sodium consumption. This research shows that they should have to receive intervention to reduce sodium intake and emphasize hill tribe population of the low quality of life to find health care alternatives.