A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Based Study to Evaluate Subjective Sleep Quality among Undergraduate Students in India

Irregular sleep patterns are often a major hindrance in the life of undergraduate students, fueled by the undulating lifestyle anomalies and new vulnerabilities that come with college life. Insomnia, slapdash sleep cycles, and daytime dysfunction may affect both physical as well as mental well-being of individuals. India has the largest share of young adults in the world, which also makes it a likely epicenter for increasing sleep disorders. Students are often exposed to a significantly high level of academic burden and turn to options such as pulling all-nighters that further propel these issues. Most students realize the effects of a bad sleep schedule but nonetheless sacrifice it for the promise of better grades ignoring the double-edged sword. This study assesses the association of self-rated subjective sleep quality with habits prevalent among undergraduate students in India and its effect on their academic performance. Based on a modified PSQI questionnaire, the participants’ sleep quality was scored and a large majority of students showed an overall moderately good sleep quality. Insufficient sleep was seen to have an adverse effect on facial appearance, work productivity and enthusiasm for daily chores, among students. Unlike previous reports, the current dataset did not reveal any significant impact of sleep quality on the academic performance of the students. We also analyzed the most prevalent factors that were responsible for disruption of sleep in college goers and probed the major reasons for nighttime phone usage, which revealed social media to be a major contributor. Although the negative impact of sleep deprivation on academic performance has been studied earlier, any differential impact of stream has not been addressed thoroughly. Unlike the common belief of disparity induced due to stream-based academic pressure, our survey analysis showed insignificant contribution of stream leading to differences in sleep quality of students. Although participants’ reported mild disruption in sleep, it was observed across all streams and it did not seem to have an immediate effect on overall sleep quality of undergraduate students.

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A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Based Study to Evaluate Subjective Sleep Quality among Undergraduate Students in India

10.31219/osf.io/xayjk ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nirmegh Basu ◽

Akansha Saxena ◽

Ayushi Sarraf ◽

Anoop Singh ◽

Akshanshi Gulani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Well Being ◽

Common Belief ◽

Survey Analysis ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep

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The Relationship Between Quality of Sleep and Emotional Empathy

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000177 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 158-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Veronica Guadagni ◽

Ford Burles ◽

Silvana Valera ◽

Emeleigh Hardwicke-Brown ◽

Michele Ferrara ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sleep Quality ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Research Participation ◽

Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽

Quality Of Sleep ◽

Emotional Empathy ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep ◽

Negative Images

Abstract. Sleep loss is known to severely disturb individuals’ mood and emotion processing. Here, we tested the hypothesis that quality of sleep is predictive of individuals’ performance on a task evaluating emotional empathy. We tested 34 healthy undergraduate students [19 males, mean (SD) age = 21.82 (3.26) years; mean (SD) education = 14.98 (1.91) years] recruited through the University of Calgary research participation system. We collected objective (actigraphy) and subjective (questionnaires and self-reports) sleep measures to characterize individuals’ sleep quality, and asked participants to solve a computerized emotional empathy task. We first performed a dimensionality reduction analysis on the sleep-related measures, which resulted in six principal components, and then ran a stepwise multiple regression analysis to investigate the sleep measures that best predicted participants’ scores on the emotional empathy task. We found that subjective sleep quality, together with sleep phase, best predicted participants’ empathic sensitivity to negative images while they explicitly evaluated the emotions of others (i.e., direct component of emotional empathy). Also, subjective sleep quality resulted to be the best predictor of participants’ arousal state in response to negative images, which is an implicit manifestation of their empathic experience (i.e., indirect component of emotional empathy). In both cases, lower subjective sleep quality was associated with lower empathic sensitivity to negative stimuli. Finally, sleep duration best predicted average empathic responses to stimuli of all valences, with shorter sleep durations associated with lower average empathic responses. Our findings provide evidence of a significant relationship between individuals’ quality of sleep and their ability to share the emotions experienced by others. These findings may have important implications for individuals employed in professions requiring social interaction and empathic experience coupled with schedules that interfere with nighttime sleep.

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192 Self-reported sleep features in the Italian population across the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

SLEEP ◽

10.1093/sleep/zsab072.191 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (Supplement_2) ◽

pp. A77-A78

Author(s):

Oreste De Rosa ◽

Nicola Cellini ◽

Francesca Conte ◽

Serena Malloggi ◽

Fiorenza Giganti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sleep Quality ◽

Linear Mixed Model ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Italian Population ◽

Sleep Habits ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep ◽

Time Points ◽

Time In Bed ◽

Second Wave

Abstract Introduction Several studies have shown the negative impact of COVID-19-related confinement measures (spring 2020) on sleep features and quality. Here we aim to follow-up on these data by assessing self-reported sleep characteristics during the second wave of the pandemic (autumn 2020) in Italy, where the government responded with a second, partial, lockdown. Methods Using a longitudinal approach, 214 participants (Mage=36.78±14.2y; 159F) who had participated in a previous survey (April 2020 – Total Lockdown, TL) completed the same online survey from November 10th to December 1st (Partial Lockdown, PL). In each survey, participants had to respond to a set of questionnaires, including the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), referring to their current situation and, retrospectively, to their situation before the lockdown, resulting in four time-points (pre-TL, TL, pre-PL, PL). Results Linear mixed-model analysis showed that bedtime was delayed from pre-TL (23:46) to TL (24:42) and then linearly advanced in pre-PL (24:02) and PL (23:56). The same pattern emerged for rise time (pre-TL: 07:48, TL: 9:05, pre-PL: 8:28, PL: 7:58) and time in bed, which increased from pre-TL (8h4min) to TL (8h24min) and then linearly decreased (pre-PL: 8h15m, PL: 8h2m). Subjective sleep quality decreased in the two lockdowns compared to the period with no restrictions. The proportion of poor sleepers (PSQI>5) increased from 39.7% (pre-TL) to 48.6% in TL and again from 36.9% (pre-PL) to 47.7% in PL. Conclusion Sleep habits and quality showed different profiles across four time-points of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictive measures. Sleep timing alterations appeared during the first lockdown, recovered after the confinement period, and almost returned to baseline during the second lockdown (likely due to a normalization of working schedules). Instead, subjective sleep quality markedly worsened during both lockdowns relative to the preceding respective months. These data suggest that subjective sleep quality is particularly sensitive to changes in life habits and psychological factors, independently of sleep habits. Considering that the pandemic situation may continue for several months, there is a need for interventions targeting sleep quality. Support (if any) N/A

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The influence of subjective sleep quality on the association between eveningness and depressive symptoms.

10.31234/osf.io/qkrsg ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Charlotte Mary Horne ◽

Ray Norbury

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Mediation Analysis ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Well Being ◽

Poor Sleep ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Healthy Participants

Increasing evidence suggests that eveningness is associated with increased risk for depression. Eveningness, however, is also associated with poor sleep quality and the unique role of eveningness in depressive symptomatology remains to be elucidated. The goal of the current study, therefore, was to examine the inter-relationships between eveningness, subjective sleep quality and depressive symptoms in healthy participants free of current or previous depression and sleep disorder. Here, 167 healthy participants (mean age 24.16, 129/38 females/males) completed the reduced Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (rMEQ), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Bootstrap mediation analysis for a simple mediation model including rMEQ, PSQI and CES-D was applied. Eveningness was associated with increased depressive symptoms and mediation analysis showed that this relationship was partly mediated by sleep quality. Our results suggest that indicators of depression observed in evening-type individuals cannot be attributed exclusively to disturbed sleep. We suggest that interventions that target both sleep quality and dysfunctionl cognitive styles would be optimal to promote well-being in evening-type individuals.

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Sleep quality of women with gynecological and breast cancer

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/s0104-11692006000600007 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

pp. 872-878 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Renata Furlani ◽

Maria Filomena Ceolim

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ◽

Night Sleep ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep ◽

Waking Up ◽

Careful Assessment

Subjective sleep quality has been recognized as a valuable indicator of health and quality of life. This exploratory and descriptive study aimed at describing habitual sleep quality of women suffering from gynecological and breast cancer and comparing habitual versus sleep quality during hospitalization. Twenty-five women admitted in hospital for clinical treatment of cancer completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) within 72 hours after admission and again just before discharge. Fifty-two percent of subjects reported habitual bad sleep quality, and this proportion increased to 80% of subjects during hospital stay. Subjects indicated the following most frequent causes of night sleep disturbance: need to go to the toilet, waking up early and receiving nursing care during the night. Results point to the importance of including careful assessment of sleep quality and environment in nursing care planning for oncology patients, mainly during hospitalization.

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Somatic symptoms and subjective sleep quality of patients with stress-related diseases in an outpatient department of psychosomatic medicine - a retrospective observational study

Sleep Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.1044 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 ◽

pp. S374-S375

Author(s):

T. Tanahashi ◽

I. Endo ◽

H. Atoda

Keyword(s):

Observational Study ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Psychosomatic Medicine ◽

Somatic Symptoms ◽

Outpatient Department ◽

Retrospective Observational Study ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep

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Yogic meditation improves objective and subjective sleep quality of healthcare professionals

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice ◽

10.1016/j.ctcp.2020.101204 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

pp. 101204

Author(s):

Priscilla Caetano Guerra ◽

Danilo F. Santaella ◽

Vania D'Almeida ◽

Rogerio Santos-Silva ◽

Sergio Tufik ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sleep Quality ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep

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Sleep-Wake Patterns and Subjective Sleep Quality of Day and Night Workers: Interaction Between Napping and Main Sleep Episodes

SLEEP ◽

10.1093/sleep/12.5.439 ◽

1989 ◽

Keyword(s):

Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Subjective Sleep ◽

Wake Patterns

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Psychological Distress Induces Poor Sleep Quality: A Cross-Sectional Study of Pharmacy Students in Bandung City, Indonesia

The Open Public Health Journal ◽

10.2174/1874944501811010369 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 369-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sofa D. Alfian ◽

Henry Ng ◽

Dika P. Destiani ◽

Rizky Abdulah

Keyword(s):

Psychological Distress ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Poor Sleep ◽

Poor Sleep Quality ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Subjective Sleep Quality ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Subjective Sleep

Introduction: Poor subjective sleep quality in undergraduate students has not been widely studied in Bandung city, Indonesia. Poor sleep quality has been related to a number of risk factors for poor health outcomes. Objective: To analyze the association between psychological distress and subjective sleep quality. Methods: A cross sectional survey was done in one of the universities of Bandung city, Indonesia. Data were collected from 290 undergraduate students selected through consecutive sampling. Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Kessler-10 questionnaire were administered. Results: The prevalence of psychological distress was well (43.1%), mild (28.6%), moderate (20.7%), and severe (7.6%). The overall sleep quality was poor and good in 84.5% and 15.5% of the students. There was a significant association between psychological distress and poor sleep quality (p=0.006). The multivariate analysis suggested that psychological distress was a predictor of poor sleep quality (OR 1.991; 95% CI, 1.311−3.026). Conclusion: There is a need for an awareness of the college resources to help manage the stress levels of students through effective coping strategy-related study habits.

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