Publication: Sleep quality among final year students of health sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
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Date
2016-06
Authors
Azmi, Noor Farhani Mohamad
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Abstract
Sleep has been found to be of the least priority of most individuals especially
students; this includes final year students of health sciences. The purpose of this cross
sectional was to determine the sleep quality among final year students of health sciences
at School of Health Science, USM. Health Believe Model was used as theoretical
framework in this study. The objective of this study was to determine the association
between age, gender, health science program and academic performance with sleep
quality. A set of questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQJ) by Buysee ( 1988)
was used and 155 final years of health science students in School of Health Sciences,
USM were recruited. A pilot study among 30 students were done to check reliabil ity
and validity of the questionnaire with the value was 0. 72. Data was analyzed using the
software package SPSS version 22. Statistical significance was considered at p value
<0.05. During the analysis, the score of sleep quality was evaluated. Among 155
respondents (n=155), 107 (69.0%) respondents showed that they had poor sleep quality
and 48 (31 .0%) showed good sleep quality. Using Chi Square test, there was no
association between age and gender with sleep quality (p= 0.175) (p=0.835). However
there was an association between different programs in health science with sleep quality
(p=0.024). Using one way anova test, there is no association between academic
performance and sleep quality (p=0.396). The study findings indicated that majority of
the final year students of health sciences at School of Health Science, USM have poor
sleep quality