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Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed that social media is associated with sleep quality. WeChat (a native social media in China) is very popular in China, especially among the youth. In the second quarter of 2016, Tencent’s WeChat had 806 million monthly active users. The study sought to identify the...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xianglong, Lin, Qianyi, Zhang, Yan, Zhu, Runzhi, Sharma, Manoj, Zhao, Yong
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27995043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3730-z
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author Xu, Xianglong
Lin, Qianyi
Zhang, Yan
Zhu, Runzhi
Sharma, Manoj
Zhao, Yong
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Lin, Qianyi
Zhang, Yan
Zhu, Runzhi
Sharma, Manoj
Zhao, Yong
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description BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed that social media is associated with sleep quality. WeChat (a native social media in China) is very popular in China, especially among the youth. In the second quarter of 2016, Tencent’s WeChat had 806 million monthly active users. The study sought to identify the influence of WeChat on the sleep quality among undergraduate students. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey adopted a multi-stage stratified sampling survey to investigate undergraduates in Chongqing, China. Data were collected on 1979 eligible adults, aged 20.27 (SD: 1.26) years old, using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to measure sleep quality. RESULTS: Respondents aged 20.27 ± 1.26 years included 535 (27.0%) males, and 1311 (66.3%) reported as having poor sleep quality. Of the 1979 participants, 1320 (66.70%) were WeChat users. In multivariable analyses, gender, grade, nationality, living costs, the student leader, the only child, type of university, WeChat usage was associated with domains of PSQI among undergraduates (p < 0.05 for all). Compared with non-users, WeChat users had a lower score of subjective quality of sleep, sleep latency, use of sleeping medication, daytime dysfunction, and global PSQI score (p < 0.05 for all). CONCLUSIONS: WeChat users may have better sleep quality than non-WeChat users among undergraduates. To determine causal relationships, further longitudinal studies will be required to test for the association between WeChat users and sleep quality. This study may also provide some implications for health promotion on sleep quality of undergraduate students.
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spelling pubmed-51332192016-12-19 Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study Xu, Xianglong Lin, Qianyi Zhang, Yan Zhu, Runzhi Sharma, Manoj Zhao, Yong Springerplus Research BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed that social media is associated with sleep quality. WeChat (a native social media in China) is very popular in China, especially among the youth. In the second quarter of 2016, Tencent’s WeChat had 806 million monthly active users. The study sought to identify the influence of WeChat on the sleep quality among undergraduate students. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey adopted a multi-stage stratified sampling survey to investigate undergraduates in Chongqing, China. Data were collected on 1979 eligible adults, aged 20.27 (SD: 1.26) years old, using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to measure sleep quality. RESULTS: Respondents aged 20.27 ± 1.26 years included 535 (27.0%) males, and 1311 (66.3%) reported as having poor sleep quality. Of the 1979 participants, 1320 (66.70%) were WeChat users. In multivariable analyses, gender, grade, nationality, living costs, the student leader, the only child, type of university, WeChat usage was associated with domains of PSQI among undergraduates (p < 0.05 for all). Compared with non-users, WeChat users had a lower score of subjective quality of sleep, sleep latency, use of sleeping medication, daytime dysfunction, and global PSQI score (p < 0.05 for all). CONCLUSIONS: WeChat users may have better sleep quality than non-WeChat users among undergraduates. To determine causal relationships, further longitudinal studies will be required to test for the association between WeChat users and sleep quality. This study may also provide some implications for health promotion on sleep quality of undergraduate students. Springer International Publishing 2016-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5133219/ /pubmed/27995043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3730-z Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Xu, Xianglong
Lin, Qianyi
Zhang, Yan
Zhu, Runzhi
Sharma, Manoj
Zhao, Yong
Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study
title Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study
title_full Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study
title_short Influence of WeChat on sleep quality among undergraduates in Chongqing, China: a cross-sectional study
title_sort influence of wechat on sleep quality among undergraduates in chongqing, china: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27995043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3730-z
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