Health indicators associated with poor sleep quality among university students

• Main Authors: Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo (Author), Roberto Wagner Júnior Freire de Freitas (Author), Adman Câmara Soares Lima (Author), Dayse Christina Rodrigues Pereira (Author), Maria Lúcia Zanetti (Author), Marta Maria Coelho Damasceno (Author)
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• Published: SciELO.
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Summary

Objective To associate the sleep quality of Brazilian undergraduate students with health indicators. Method A cross-sectional study was developed with a random sample of 662 undergraduate students from Fortaleza, Brazil. The demographic data, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and health data indicators (smoking, alcoholism, sedentary lifestyle, nutritional condition and serum cholesterol) were collected through a self-administered questionnaire. Blood was collected at a clinical laboratory. In order to estimate the size of the associations, a Poisson Regression was used. Results For students who are daily smokers, the occurrence of poor sleep was higher than in non-smokers (p<0.001). Prevalence rate values were nevertheless close to 1. Conclusion The likelihood of poor sleep is almost the same in smokers and in alcoholics.

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1980-220X
10.1590/S0080-623420140000700017