A systematic review and meta-analysis of poor sleep, insomnia symptoms and stress in undergraduate students

Gardani, Maria; Bradford, Daniel R. R.; Russell, Kirsten; Allan, Stephanie; Beattie, Louise; Ellis, Jason; Akram, Umair

doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2021.101565

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“…Indeed, these countries registered the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 in the world. Also, it should be hypothesized that countries with a more severe pandemic situation showed greater levels of stress [ 176 ] that may impact on sleep quality [ 177 , 178 ].…”

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Subjective sleep alterations in healthy subjects worldwide during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

Scarpelli¹,

Zagaria²,

Ratti³

et al. 2022

Sleep Medicine

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Subjective sleep alterations in healthy subjects worldwide during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

Scarpelli¹,

Zagaria²,

Ratti³

et al. 2022

Sleep Medicine

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“…A study that included students from six universities showed that poor sleep quality was linked to depression and anxiety ( 4 ). A systematic review combined 34 studies found that poor sleep quality and insomnia were associated with stress ( 48 ). However, most of the studies were cross-sectional and could not prove a causal relationship between them.…”

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Research trends in college students' sleep from 2012 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis

Zhou

et al. 2022

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundA great proportion of college students experience various sleep problems, which damage their health and study performance. College students' sleep problems, which are caused by several factors, have been easily ignored before. In the past decade, more research has been published to expand our understanding of undergraduates' sleep. The purpose of the study is to explore the research hotspots and frontiers regarding college students' sleep using CiteSpace5.8.R3 and offer guidance for future study.MethodsWe retrieved relevant literature from the Web of Science Core Collection Database and imputed the downloaded files into CiteSpace5.8.R3 for visualization analysis. We generated network maps of the collaborations between authors, countries, institutions, the cited journals, and co-occurrence keywords. The analysis of keywords clusters, timeline views, and keywords citation bursts help us identify the hotspots and research trends.ResultsA total of 1,841 articles related to college students' sleep, published from 2012 to 2021, were selected. The number of publications gradually increased. Karl Peltzer was the most prolific authors with 15 publications. The United States and Harvard University separately contributed 680 and 40 articles and had the greatest impact in this field. SLEEP ranked first in the frequency of cited journals. The article published by Lund HG was the most influential publication. Based on the analysis of keywords, we summarized research hotspots as follows: current status, affecting factors, and adverse outcomes of college students' sleep. The frontiers were the further understanding of the relationships between sleep and mental and physical health, and various interventions for sleep disorders.ConclusionOur study illustrates the research hotspots and trends and calls for more research to expand the findings. In the future, the cooperation between institutions and authors needs to be strengthened. The complex relationships between sleep and mental and physical health and problematic substance use disorders are necessary to be explored. Longitudinal studies or randomized controlled trials should be constructed to verify the current findings or assumptions.

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“…This coincides with findings that although individuals with insomnia report cognitive performance difficulties, substantial decreases in objective performance are rarely detected (Fulda & Schulz, 2001). Inconsistencies between subjective and objective reports open the possibility that a negative reporting bias (Watson & Pennebaker, 1989) increases reports of insomnia, perhaps affecting previously observed relationships between insomnia and other negatively toned variables such as stress (Gardani et al, 2022) and neuroticism (Rojo-Wissar et al, 2021).…”

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Bad dreams and bad sleep: Relationships between nightmare frequency, insomnia, and nightmare proneness.

Kelly¹

2022

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Previous research consistently found a relationship between nightmares and insomnia. The aim of the current study was to investigate how nightmare proneness, a disposition to experience frequent nightmares partly reflecting hyperarousal, might influence this relationship among 339 university students. After controlling for gender, neuroticism, and negative response bias, mediation models found that nightmare proneness had direct relationships with insomnia markers. Nightmare frequency partially mediated nightmare proneness for difficulty initiating sleep, maintaining sleep, and returning to sleep after waking but not early morning wakenings. The results suggested that nightmare proneness directly influences insomnia markers outside of nightmare frequency, neuroticism, negative responding, and gender and partly influences difficulty initiating sleep, maintaining sleep, and returning to sleep after waking through nightmare occurrences. The findings provide additional evidence for a relationship between nightmares and insomnia and suggest that nightmare proneness could be a factor in this relationship. Suggestions for future research are offered.

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of poor sleep, insomnia symptoms and stress in undergraduate students

Cited by 130 publications

References 89 publications

Subjective sleep alterations in healthy subjects worldwide during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

Subjective sleep alterations in healthy subjects worldwide during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

Research trends in college students' sleep from 2012 to 2021: A bibliometric analysis

Bad dreams and bad sleep: Relationships between nightmare frequency, insomnia, and nightmare proneness.

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