[Quality of sleep in hospitalized psychiatric patients].

To determine the global sleep quality and its components in patients of the Psychiatric Hospital of Maracaibo we performed a cross-sectional descriptive study based on a personal survey and the application of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in 57 individuals selected among all the 70 patients hospitalized in the Psychiatric Hospital of Maracaibo in the month of May of 2004. 91.22% of the patients displayed alterations of the sleep (slight 28.