Sleep and Academic Performance among Female Students in Al-Maarefa Colleges, 2015-2016
| Autor: | Zainab Hussain Al-ibrahim, Rawan Adel Shafaay, Shrouq Ahmad Rahhal, Mada Bejad G. Almutairi, Reem Ahmad Alanazi, Hadeel Maher Moqbel, Handi Adnan Al-mshel, Norah Abdullah Al-habshan, Meriam Sadiq Al-abdullah, Abrar Sayer Al-mutairi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry education Excessive daytime sleepiness 03 medical and health sciences Sleep deprivation 0302 clinical medicine Mood 030225 pediatrics Physical therapy Medicine Observational study Sleep (system call) medicine.symptom business Sleep period Female students 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Sleep problem |
| Zdroj: | The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine. 73:6828-6837 |
| ISSN: | 2090-7125 |
| DOI: | 10.21608/ejhm.2018.16735 |
| Popis: | Background: College students experience a number of sleep problems, which may impact academic performance, health, and mood. A common sleep problem among college students is sleep deprivation and resulting in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Objective: To identify the relationship between sleep and academic performance of female students. Methods: An observational cross-sectional study was done in Al-Maarefa colleges during the time of 2015 to 2016. Information on sleep period and quality was collected by a self-administered questionnaire distributed on a sample of 150 students. Main findings: Almost 71% of the students felt tired many times a week and felt sleepy during the day. Moreover, 87% of the students felt sleepy in lectures long time within the week. 68% of the students had 3.1-4 GPA on the preparatory year, and only 35% of the students had 6-8 hours of the sleep per day. A strong relation was found between sleep hours on exam days and last GPA (p= 0.005). Another relation was found between sleep hours on weekdays and the last GPA (p= 0.04). Conclusion: the data collected showed a high prevalence of insufficient sleep hours generally, and on nights before the exam specifically and a strong relationship between exam day sleeping hours and the final GPA. The average GPA is still high compared to the preparatory year GPA, even when the number of sleeping hours declined compared to a preparatory year. |
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