Open AccessSleep quality of Brazilian nursing students: A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Andréia Ferreira dos Santos,
Fernanda Carneiro Mussi,
Cláudia Geovana da Silva Pires,
Melissa Almeida Santos Paim,
Fernanda Michelle Santos e Silva,
Rodrigo Marques da Silva
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of nursing education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-4059
pISSN - 1925-4040
DOI - 10.5430/jnep.v10n1p11
Subject(s) - pittsburgh sleep quality index , sleep (system call) , cross sectional study , sleep quality , psychological intervention , medicine , quality (philosophy) , psychology , nursing interventions classification , nursing , gerontology , demography , psychiatry , insomnia , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , computer science , operating system
Objective: To describe the sleep quality of nursing students according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted with 286 nursing students from a public institution in Salvador, Bahia. Data gathering instruments were applied in classrooms and data were assessed in absolute and relative frequencies, means and standard deviation.Results: The mean age of participants was 23.48 years (SD = 4.421). Most of students were female (90.2%), single with partner (90.9%), afro descendent (87.8%), unemployed (81.5%), total Family income below than four minimum wages (47.2%), enrolled between 6th and 10th semester (54.5%), attending academic activities in two or three shifts (80.8%). Sample showed poor sleep quality (86.4%), especially due to the sleep duration, sleep disturbances and daytime disfunction.Conclusions: Poor sleep quality was prevalent in the sample, what rises the need of further analysis of the associated factors and interventions to change this reality.