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Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk
Health behaviors of higher education students can be negatively influenced by stressful events. The global COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to characterize and compare health behaviors across multiple countries and to examine how these behaviors are shaped by the pandemic experience....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7838912/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33467418 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep3010002 |
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author | Du, Chen Zan, Megan Chong Hueh Cho, Min Jung Fenton, Jenifer I. Hsiao, Pao Ying Hsiao, Richard Keaver, Laura Lai, Chang-Chi Lee, HeeSoon Ludy, Mary-Jon Shen, Wan Swee, Winnie Chee Siew Thrivikraman, Jyothi Tseng, Kuo-Wei Tseng, Wei-Chin Almotwa, Juman Feldpausch, Clare E. Folk, Sara Yi Ling Gadd, Suzannah Wang, Linyutong Wang, Wenyan Zhang, Xinyi Tucker, Robin M. |
author_facet | Du, Chen Zan, Megan Chong Hueh Cho, Min Jung Fenton, Jenifer I. Hsiao, Pao Ying Hsiao, Richard Keaver, Laura Lai, Chang-Chi Lee, HeeSoon Ludy, Mary-Jon Shen, Wan Swee, Winnie Chee Siew Thrivikraman, Jyothi Tseng, Kuo-Wei Tseng, Wei-Chin Almotwa, Juman Feldpausch, Clare E. Folk, Sara Yi Ling Gadd, Suzannah Wang, Linyutong Wang, Wenyan Zhang, Xinyi Tucker, Robin M. |
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description | Health behaviors of higher education students can be negatively influenced by stressful events. The global COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to characterize and compare health behaviors across multiple countries and to examine how these behaviors are shaped by the pandemic experience. Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in universities in China, Ireland, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Netherlands and the United States (USA) were recruited into this cross-sectional study. Eligible students filled out an online survey comprised of validated tools for assessing sleep quality and duration, dietary risk, alcohol misuse and physical activity between late April and the end of May 2020. Health behaviors were fairly consistent across countries, and all countries reported poor sleep quality. However, during the survey period, the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the health behaviors of students in European countries and the USA more negatively than Asian countries, which could be attributed to the differences in pandemic time course and caseloads. Students who experienced a decline in sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic had higher dietary risk scores than students who did not experience a change in sleep quality (p = 0.001). Improved sleep quality was associated with less sitting time (p = 0.010). Addressing sleep issues among higher education students is a pressing concern, especially during stressful events. These results support the importance of making education and behavior-based sleep programming available for higher education students in order to benefit students’ overall health. |
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spelling | pubmed-78389122021-01-28 Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk Du, Chen Zan, Megan Chong Hueh Cho, Min Jung Fenton, Jenifer I. Hsiao, Pao Ying Hsiao, Richard Keaver, Laura Lai, Chang-Chi Lee, HeeSoon Ludy, Mary-Jon Shen, Wan Swee, Winnie Chee Siew Thrivikraman, Jyothi Tseng, Kuo-Wei Tseng, Wei-Chin Almotwa, Juman Feldpausch, Clare E. Folk, Sara Yi Ling Gadd, Suzannah Wang, Linyutong Wang, Wenyan Zhang, Xinyi Tucker, Robin M. Clocks Sleep Article Health behaviors of higher education students can be negatively influenced by stressful events. The global COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to characterize and compare health behaviors across multiple countries and to examine how these behaviors are shaped by the pandemic experience. Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in universities in China, Ireland, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Netherlands and the United States (USA) were recruited into this cross-sectional study. Eligible students filled out an online survey comprised of validated tools for assessing sleep quality and duration, dietary risk, alcohol misuse and physical activity between late April and the end of May 2020. Health behaviors were fairly consistent across countries, and all countries reported poor sleep quality. However, during the survey period, the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the health behaviors of students in European countries and the USA more negatively than Asian countries, which could be attributed to the differences in pandemic time course and caseloads. Students who experienced a decline in sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic had higher dietary risk scores than students who did not experience a change in sleep quality (p = 0.001). Improved sleep quality was associated with less sitting time (p = 0.010). Addressing sleep issues among higher education students is a pressing concern, especially during stressful events. These results support the importance of making education and behavior-based sleep programming available for higher education students in order to benefit students’ overall health. MDPI 2021-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7838912/ /pubmed/33467418 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep3010002 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Du, Chen Zan, Megan Chong Hueh Cho, Min Jung Fenton, Jenifer I. Hsiao, Pao Ying Hsiao, Richard Keaver, Laura Lai, Chang-Chi Lee, HeeSoon Ludy, Mary-Jon Shen, Wan Swee, Winnie Chee Siew Thrivikraman, Jyothi Tseng, Kuo-Wei Tseng, Wei-Chin Almotwa, Juman Feldpausch, Clare E. Folk, Sara Yi Ling Gadd, Suzannah Wang, Linyutong Wang, Wenyan Zhang, Xinyi Tucker, Robin M. Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk |
title | Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk |
title_full | Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk |
title_fullStr | Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk |
title_full_unstemmed | Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk |
title_short | Health Behaviors of Higher Education Students from 7 Countries: Poorer Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic Predicts Higher Dietary Risk |
title_sort | health behaviors of higher education students from 7 countries: poorer sleep quality during the covid-19 pandemic predicts higher dietary risk |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7838912/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33467418 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/clockssleep3010002 |
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