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Sleep patterns and sleepiness of working college students
Fecha
2012Registro en:
WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION, AMSTERDAM, v. 41, pp. 5550-5552, OCT 31, 2012
1051-9815
10.3233/WOR-2012-0879-5550
Autor
Teixeira, Liliane
Lowden, Arne
Luz, Andrea Aparecida da
Turte, Samantha Lemos
Valente, Daniel
Matsumura, Roberto Jun
Paula, Leticia Pickersgill de
Takara, Meire Yuri
Nagai-Manelli, Roberta
Fischer, Frida Marina
Institución
Resumen
The double journey (work and study) may result or aggravate health problems, including sleep disturbances, as observed in previous studies with high school students. The aim of this study is to analyze the sleep-wake cycle and perceived sleepiness of working college students during weekdays. Twenty-three healthy college male students, 21-24 years old, working during the day and attending classes in the evening, participated in this study. During five consecutive days, the students filled out daily activities logs and wore actigraphs. Mean sleeping time was lower than 6 hours per night. No significant differences were observed in the sleep-wake cycle during the weekdays. The observed lack of changes in the sleep-wake cycle of these college students might occur as participants were not on a free schedule, but exposed to social constraints, as was the regular attendance to evening college and day work activities. Sleepiness worsened over the evening school hours. Those results show the burden carried by College students who perform double activities - work and study.