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Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli
BACKGROUND: The effect of sleep difficulties has achieved a great deal of attention recently, with university students considered as a homogenized population, particularly affected by sleep habits. AIM: The objective of this study was to investigate whether Libyan college students experience sleep d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118811 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v7i0.18930 |
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author | Taher, Yousef A. Samud, Awatef M. Ratimy, Aya H. Seabe, Areeje M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The effect of sleep difficulties has achieved a great deal of attention recently, with university students considered as a homogenized population, particularly affected by sleep habits. AIM: The objective of this study was to investigate whether Libyan college students experience sleep disturbance during their academic programmes. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the college of Pharmacy, Tripoli University, during February 2010. A total of 201 students, including 179 females (89.05%) and 22 males (10.95%), were recruited from different academic levels. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and included a number of life-style variables. Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) was used for the assessment of daytime sleepiness. RESULTS: This study showed that the total sleep time (TST) on a weeknight was 6.40 h and 67 students reported napping during daytime. The TST plus naps totalled 7.39 h. Out of eight possible dozing situations, we found that the mean score for ESS was 8.78. In addition, 79 students showed an ESS score of >10. Furthermore, our results showed that the majority of students (>92%) reported poor sleep satisfaction with quality and duration of sleep hours. Thinking about difficulty of study but not increasing education programs or tea/coffee consumption is associated with sleep difficulties reported. Moreover, 77.6% of students reported an irregular sleep–wake schedule. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that students experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. The TST of pharmaceutical students in Libya, as in other developing countries, is less than those reported by Western students. Students experienced various environmental demands during their college years and, their quality of sleep was negatively affected. |
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spelling | pubmed-34854002012-11-01 Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli Taher, Yousef A. Samud, Awatef M. Ratimy, Aya H. Seabe, Areeje M. Libyan J Med Original Article BACKGROUND: The effect of sleep difficulties has achieved a great deal of attention recently, with university students considered as a homogenized population, particularly affected by sleep habits. AIM: The objective of this study was to investigate whether Libyan college students experience sleep disturbance during their academic programmes. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the college of Pharmacy, Tripoli University, during February 2010. A total of 201 students, including 179 females (89.05%) and 22 males (10.95%), were recruited from different academic levels. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and included a number of life-style variables. Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) was used for the assessment of daytime sleepiness. RESULTS: This study showed that the total sleep time (TST) on a weeknight was 6.40 h and 67 students reported napping during daytime. The TST plus naps totalled 7.39 h. Out of eight possible dozing situations, we found that the mean score for ESS was 8.78. In addition, 79 students showed an ESS score of >10. Furthermore, our results showed that the majority of students (>92%) reported poor sleep satisfaction with quality and duration of sleep hours. Thinking about difficulty of study but not increasing education programs or tea/coffee consumption is associated with sleep difficulties reported. Moreover, 77.6% of students reported an irregular sleep–wake schedule. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that students experienced excessive daytime sleepiness. The TST of pharmaceutical students in Libya, as in other developing countries, is less than those reported by Western students. Students experienced various environmental demands during their college years and, their quality of sleep was negatively affected. Co-Action Publishing 2012-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3485400/ /pubmed/23118811 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v7i0.18930 Text en © 2012 Yousef A. Taher et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Taher, Yousef A. Samud, Awatef M. Ratimy, Aya H. Seabe, Areeje M. Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli |
title | Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli |
title_full | Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli |
title_fullStr | Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli |
title_full_unstemmed | Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli |
title_short | Sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in Tripoli |
title_sort | sleep complaints and daytime sleepiness among pharmaceutical students in tripoli |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118811 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v7i0.18930 |
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