INTRODUCTION
Sleep disorders are common disorders in the community, which effect both
physical and mental health, closely related to work and social life,
which can cause loss of work and work force, can lead to
life-threatening serious complications and work accidents. Sleep
disorders are important because of effects on the lives of people as
well as the impact of health spending. In a study to evaluate sleep
disorders in primary care; a questionnaire was applied to 35327 adults
in ten countries from four continents and it was determined that one out
of four people in the world had sleep disturbances and 95% of the
population had insomnia in some part of their lives and less than one
third of these people applied for help to the health institution
[1]. Although it is very common in the community, as stated in the
study, most of the patients with sleep disorders do not apply to health
institutions or physicians. This situation delay the diagnosis of these
diseases. The diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the common diseases
in the community is made by family physicians who evaluate the patients
on the basis of biopsychosocial approach, thus increasing the rate of
diagnosis and treatment of these patients and decreasing the problems
caused by sleep disorders throughout the society. In a study conducted
on patients who applied to primary health care facilities due to sleep
problems, it was stated that physicians and patients also wanted sleep
disorders to be addressed in primary health care [2]. In our study,
we aimed to evaluate the sleep disorders, sleep quality of the patients
who applied to family health centers, to determine the situations that
might be related with insomnia and to determine the insomnia rates of
the general population in primary care.