Sleep Quality and Quantity of Occupational Therapy and Other Allied Health Students.

ALLIED health personnel; ANALYSIS of variance; BIOMETRY; BODY composition; BODY weight; EMOTIONS; FATIGUE (Physiology); MATHEMATICAL statistics; QUESTIONNAIRES; RACE; SLEEP; STATISTICS; STATURE; STUDENTS; T-test (Statistics); DATA analysis; PARAMETERS (Statistics); CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; OCCUPATIONAL therapy students; SLEEP hygiene

We examined sleep behaviors in allied health students (N = 77) with the following questionnaires: Caffeine Consumption, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Profile of Mood States, and Mental and Physical State and Trait Energy and Fatigue Scales. Students averaged 6.56 hr of sleep per night. More than half of the students received borderline or poor sleep quality scores on the PSQI. Students with poor sleep quality had a significantly higher proportion of mood disturbances than students with optimal sleep quality. These results highlight the need for educational programs to emphasize the sleep hygiene practices of their students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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