Correlation between Intensity of Dhikr Breath and Sleep Latency

Abstract

Sleep latency is the time period between the preparation for sleep and the start of deep sleep.Sleep latency is the main indicator to determine the quality of an individual sleep. The longer the sleep latency is required by someone to fall asleep, the lower of the sleep quality will be. Dhikr breath is an alternative method of therapy in order to reduce a person’s latency of sleep to get a better sleep quality. In dhikr breath, there is relaxation and transcendental meditation that is effective to make a person relax and will eventually fall asleep. The study aimed to determine the relationship between the intensity of performing dhikr breath with sleep latency. It was an observational study which implemented the cross sectional approach. It involved 21 respondents who practice dhikr breath. The data of dhikr breath intensity and sleep latency were obtained by carrying on questionnaire. The results showed that the mean intensity of dhikr breath of the respondents was 81.14 times, while the mean sleep latency was 13.05 minutes. The analysis of correlation was conducted by applying Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test with p-value = 0.00, it indicated that there is a very significant correlation between the intensity of dhikr breath and sleep latency. The higher is the intensity of dhikr breath, the better the sleep latency will be.