Sleep quality and stress levels among higher education students
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A good night sleep enables to achieve physical and
mental wellbeing (Paiva, 2015). The preservation of sleep quality
is paramount as who sleeps well has a high adaptation capacity
to adverse circumstances such as stress and anxiety, amongst others.
There is an impacting relationship between reduced sleeping
hours and high levels of anxiety, depression and stress (Pinto et
al., 2012). Measure the sleep quality and stress levels amongst
higher education students.Quantitative study with a descriptive-correlational and
transversal design. A socio-demographic record, the Pittsburgh
Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) from Ramalho (2008) and the Anxiety,
Depression and Stress Scale (EADS-21) from Ribeiro, Honrado and
Leal (2004) were applied. The sample included 358 students. 54% of the students present a bad sleep quality, go to
bed on average at 1am, take about 19 minutes to fall asleep and
sleep on average 7 hours effectively. Female students have a 48%
higher probability of having bad sleep quality. Stress, anxiety and
depression levels were considered disperse with stress presenting
the higher average. The majority of the students that refer having
a bad sleep quality present an average score of 6.57 on the stress
scale being approximately double of the students that refer having
a good sleep quality (3.35). Stress, anxiety and depression are positively and with
statistic signiicance correlated to the sleep quality index where a
higher score means worse sleep quality.
