Early to bed, early to rise! Sleep habits and academic performance in college students

Eliasson, Arne; Lettieri, Christopher J.; Eliasson, Arn H.

doi:10.1007/s11325-009-0282-2

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“…In contrast, Eliasson et al (2010) and Trockel et al (2000) find no significant results in this respect in the United States (Washington DC and Utah). For a more in-depth review of former studies on the relationship between sleep habits and academic performance, we refer to Curcio et al (2006), Shochat et al (2014) and Taras & Potts-Datema (2005).…”

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Mister Sandman, bring me good marks! On the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement

Baert

Omey

Verhaest

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Abstract. There is growing evidence that health factors affect tertiary education success in a causal way. This study assesses the effect of sleep quality on academic achievement at university. To this end, we surveyed 2 804 students about their sleep quality by means of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) before the start of their first exam period in December 2013 at Ghent University. PSQI scores were merged with course marks in this exam period. Instrumenting PSQI scores by sleep quality during secondary education, we find that increasing total sleep quality with one standard deviation leads to 4.85 percentage point higher course marks.Based on this finding, we suggest that higher education providers might be incentivised to invest part of their resources for social facilities in professional support for students with sleep and other health problems.

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Mister Sandman, bring me good marks! On the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement

Baert

Omey

Verhaest

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…This duration remains below the general average of the Brazilian (7-9 hours) and global (6.5-8.5 hours) adult population, but was similar to the findings in other studies, involving Brazilian, North American, European, Asian and Middle Eastern college students. 1,[13][14][15][16]18,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] In other studies undertaken in Portugal and Chine, students slept more than seven hours per day. 3,32 As people can be classified into big and small sleepers, one cannot affirm for certain that the mean hours of sleep found in this study is insufficient to attend to the research subjects' physiological needs.…”

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Avaliação da qualidade do sono de estudantes universitários de Fortaleza-CE

Araújo

Lima

Alencar

et al. 2013

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ABSTRACT:The aim in this research was to evaluate the sleep quality of college students in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. A crosssectional study was conducted with 701 students from the Universidade Federal do Ceará, from March to June 2011. We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Most students presented poor subjective sleep quality (54%), sleep latency in less than 15 minutes (60.1%) and efficiency under 65% (99%). In the sample, the sleep duration was of 6.3 hours per day (SD±1.4 hours) (p<0.001). Data analysis revealed that a substantial portion of the college students (95.3%) surveyed presented poor sleep quality. It is essential to operationalize health promotion actions at the universities in such a way that the students construct their own quality of sleep. DESCRIPTORS: EVALUACIÓN DE LA CALIDAD DEL SUEÑO DE ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS DE FORTALEZA-CERESUMEN: El objetivo de esta investigación fue evaluar la calidad del sueño de los estudiantes universitarios en Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil. Se realizó una encuesta con los estudiantes de 701 en la Universidad Federal de Ceará entre marzo y junio de 2011. Se utilizó el índice de la Calidad del Sueño de Pittsburgh (PSQI). La mayoría de los estudiantes tenía una mala calidad subjetiva del sueño (54%), la latencia del sueño y la eficiencia de menos de 15 minutos (60,1%) y 65% (99%), respectivamente. La duración del sueño de la muestra fue de 6,3 horas por día (SD ± 1,4 horas) (p<0,001). El análisis de los siete componentes del PSQI mostró que una parte sustancial de los estudiantes universitarios encuestados (95,2%) tienen mala calidad del sueño. El análisis de datos reveló que una parte sustancial de la universidad investigado (95,3%) tenían mala calidad del sueño. DESCRIPTORES:Sueño. Transtornos del sueño. Estudiantes. Enfermería.

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“…Delayed sleep and poor sleep quality have been acknowledged as contributing factors in decreasing academic performance amongst college students (Eliasson, Lettieri, & Eliasson, 2010). Research supports that students who stress and worry about academic performance may be more likely to experience poor sleep quality (Galambos, Dalton, & Maggs, 2009;Lund et al 2010).…”

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College Students’ Prevalence of Sleep Hygiene Awareness and Practices

Felix

Campsen

White

et al. 2017

ASSRJ

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Research has consistently found that college students report short sleep length and poor sleep quality. As a result of their poor sleep quality, there is concern that college students may struggle with issues associated with academic performance, physical health, and mental health. Previous research has investigated a multitude of factors that may contribute to poor sleeping behaviors, including sleep hygiene awareness and practices. The current study found that participants were obtaining less than the recommended average hours of sleep. Results indicated an almost equal number of participants reported poor sleep quality, average sleep quality, and good sleep quality. Results also indicated that between 40-50% of the sample reported difficulties related going to bed, falling asleep, maintaining sleep, reinitiating sleep, and returning to wakefulness. Although participants in the present study reported sleep hygiene awareness, their knowledge is not associated with their sleep practices. Based on these results, it may be implied that improving or increasing sleep hygiene knowledge is not an intervention that would be effective in improving sleep hygiene practices.

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Early to bed, early to rise! Sleep habits and academic performance in college students

Abstract: Timing of sleep and wakefulness correlated more closely with academic performance than total sleep time and other relevant factors. These findings have important implications for programs intended to improve academic performance by targeting sleep habits of students.

Cited by 133 publications

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Mister Sandman, bring me good marks! On the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement

Mister Sandman, bring me good marks! On the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement

Avaliação da qualidade do sono de estudantes universitários de Fortaleza-CE

College Students’ Prevalence of Sleep Hygiene Awareness and Practices

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