Relationship of Sleep Hygiene Awareness, Sleep Hygiene Practices, and Sleep Quality in University Students

Brown, Frank L. H.; Buboltz, Walter C.; Soper, Barlow

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“…It is known that university students have a different sleep rythm. These rythms lead to common student habits (consumption of alcohol and caffeine, environmental noise, go into sleep in a sad mode) associated with poor sleep hygiene and quality (Brown et al, 2002).…”

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Hazardous Health Behaviour among Medical Students: a Study from Turkey

Naçar¹,

Çetinkaya²,

Baykan³

et al. 2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Hazardous health behaviour in young people is an important factor that affects the individual risk for non-communicable diseases and other disorders later in life. This study aimed to determine the hazardous health behaviour of first and last class medical students of Erciyes University. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out with 240 medical students from the first and 130 students from the last (sixth) class. Data were obtained by questionnaire between March-April 2012. In total, 339 students were included with a response rate of 91.6%. Socio-demographic characteristics, school success, self-reported economic difficulties, health perceptions, hazardous health behaviour related to chronic disease, tobacco, alcohol, substance use, body weight, height, traffic, violence and nutrition were assessed in line with the literature. Results: Of the participants; 64.0% were from first and 36.0% were from the last class. Mean ages for the first and last classes were 19.4±1.5 and 24.0±1.5 years, respectively. In the current study, males exhibited more hazardous behaviour than females. Sime 19.8% of the students in the study group used alcohol, 35.4% used a waterpipe, and 24.8% used tobacco at least once. These rates increased in both genders in the last class and the increase in males was significant. Some 3.8% of the students in the current study used pleasure-inducing illegal substances at least once. All the students participating in the current study were single, the number of males reported not using condoms (8.6%) was 4.56 times higher compared to females. Some 64.0% of the students did not perform physical activity lasting at least 30 minutes for five times a week, 13.0% did not sleep for mean 7-8 hours daily, males having a 2.9 times higher risk. More than 1/3 of the students did not consume cooked vegetable dishes and ¼ did not consume fresh fruits and salads, the rates were higher among males. Conclusions: In the current study, hazardous health behaviour was prevalent among medical students, with higher risks among males and last class students. According to these results, medical curriculum may be focused on decreasing hazardous health behaviour. In addition, in order to prevent unhealthy behaviour, the number of youth-friendly health facilities should be increased.

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Hazardous Health Behaviour among Medical Students: a Study from Turkey

Naçar¹,

Çetinkaya²,

Baykan³

et al. 2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Students should understand the effects of caffeine, alcohol, napping, varied sleep schedules, and exercise on sleep problems . Evidence demonstrates that in a population without sleep disturbances, this strategy increases knowledge of sleep hygiene which results in better sleep practices and consequently better sleep quality (Brown, Buboltz, & Soper, 2006;Brown, Buboltz, & Soper, 2002).…”

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Who Needs More Sleep? Comparing Undergraduate and Graduate Students' Sleep Habits in a National U.S. Sample

Oswalt

Wyatt

2014

IJHE

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Sleep disorders and deficits are a national U.S. health concern, and college students report more sleep difficulties than the general population. Most published studies examine college students as a homogenous population or focus on professional (e.g. medical) students. This study compares sleep patterns of undergraduate and graduate students from a national U.S. sample using the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA) II survey. Graduate students on average reported better sleep behaviors; however, graduate students' sleep habits were still poor and these students could also benefit from intervention.

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“…Sleep hygiene is a term used to describe a collection of behaviours related to the promotion of good sleep [18]. It is usually recommended that good habits and behaviours can enhance sleep quality and quantity.…”

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“…They observed that sleep hygiene practice was significantly associated with sleep quality. Poor sleep hygiene practices led to a higher prevalence of insomnia and sleeping problems [18]. Based on the National Sleep Foundation [20], sleep hygiene promoted healthy sleep and daytime alertness.…”

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Factors Affecting Sleep Quality among Adolescent Athletes

Lo¹,

Leung²,

Chau³

et al. 2017

Sports Nutr Ther

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Objectives: This study used a cross-sectional experimental design to examine the association between sleep quality and sports performance among adolescent recreation team-sports athletes in Hong Kong. By investigating the factors that affect sleep quality, it intended to arouse awareness of coaches and athletes the importance of sleeping so that they can improve training and competition performance.Methods: Hundred and twelve male and female participants with age range from 12 to 17 were involved in this study. A One-way ANCOVA model was designed to analyze the relationships among sleep quality and five factors (consume of caffeine or alcohol, extreme mood, sleeping environment, anxiety due to academic, and anxiety due to sports) and multiple regression analysis was adopted to predict the sleep quality through the coefficient of those variables.Results: Consumption of drinks or food that contained caffeine or alcohol, experiencing extreme mood such as shock or being too excited before sleep and having a bright and noisy sleeping environment affected the sleep quality. Most student athletes were struggling between academic results and sports in Hong Kong. The results had shown that nervousness due to academic was another factor that affected sleep quality. It has also found that not only academic results could affect sleep quality of student-athletes, but also nervousness due to sports could also be another thrilling factor. There were significance effects among factors in "drinking/eating drinks/food which contains caffeine or alcohol", "poor sleeping environment", "sleeping duration", and "self-rated sleep quality". Conclusion:The preliminary findings provide evidence that majority of secondary student-athletes are suffering from inadequate sleep due to dreadful sleeping qualities, which caused adverse conditions both physically and psychologically, and brought worst impacts to training and competitions performance. It is recommended that sleep hygiene could be promoted to coaches and athletes to enrich their knowledge of having better sleeping patterns. Much needed evidence regarding relationships of different aspects such as brain wave, sleeping patterns, injuries, diet, and the possible effects on sleep quality.

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Relationship of Sleep Hygiene Awareness, Sleep Hygiene Practices, and Sleep Quality in University Students

Cited by 350 publications

References 35 publications

Hazardous Health Behaviour among Medical Students: a Study from Turkey

Hazardous Health Behaviour among Medical Students: a Study from Turkey

Who Needs More Sleep? Comparing Undergraduate and Graduate Students' Sleep Habits in a National U.S. Sample

Factors Affecting Sleep Quality among Adolescent Athletes

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