TITLE:
Relationship between Lifestyle, Quality of Sleep, and Daytime Drowsiness of Nursing Students of University A
AUTHORS:
Miki Sato, Hirokazu Ito, Hiroko Sugimoto, Tetsuya Tanioka, Yuko Yasuhara, Rozzano Locsin, Beth King
KEYWORDS:
University Students, Lifestyle, Quality of Sleep, Drowsiness at Daytime
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.7 No.1,
January
11,
2017
ABSTRACT: The harmful effects of technological devices, including smart phones have been increasingly suspected among university students; bedtimes have become increasingly later at night, and leisure activities often extend through the night. Likewise, availability and need of increasing part-time job hours have been considered. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship among lifestyles, quality of sleep, and daytime drowsiness of nursing students of University A. The research was conducted in June 2015, when student life rhythms were considered stable after two months of lectures. Responses with missing values or with inappropriate answers were excluded. Of the data collected from 96 respondents, only 71 were acceptable. The survey focused on lifestyle, daytime sleepiness (using ESS: Epworth Sleepiness Scale) and quality of subjective sleep (using the PSQI: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index). Approval was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee of Shikoku University. While in this study, more than half (63.4%) of the students had poor quality of sleep, however, there was no relationship between their quality of sleep and daytime drowsiness, or between their lifestyles and the quality of sleep. These findings suggest that while university students’ use of technological devices is suspected to influence on sleep deprivation and consequent daytime drowsiness, the findings did not provide the evidence.