Abstract
O objetivo desta pesquisa foi avaliar a qualidade do sono de estudantes universitários de Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil. Estudo transversal foi realizado com 701 alunos da Universidade Federal do Ceará, entre março e junho de 2011. Foi aplicado o Índice de Qualidade do Sono de Pittsburgh. A maioria dos universitários tinha uma qualidade subjetiva do sono ruim (54%), latência e eficiência do sono inferior a 15 minutos (60, 1%) e a 65% (99%), respectivamente. A duração do sono da amostra foi de 6, 3 horas diárias (DP±1, 4 horas) (p<0.001). A análise dos dados evidenciou que parcela substancial dos universitários investigados (95, 3%) possui má qualidade do sono. É determinante operacionalizar ações de promoção da saúde nas universidades para que o próprio acadêmico atue na construção da sua qualidade de sono.
Highlights
The study population consisted of 701 college students, distributed across 24 undergraduate programs at Universidade Fede ral do Ceará (UFC)
Many college students in this research indicated they considered their sleep was bad during the last month
One of the pillars of the human sleep pattern is exactly determined by the self-assessed satisfaction with sleep.[22]
Summary
Bad quality of sleep knowingly has a direct effect on the quality of human life, as it seems to be involved in increased morbidity due to autonomous dysfunction, psychiatric disorders, car and automobile accidents, early aging, depression, kidney failure, glucose intolerance, hypercortisolemia; and decreased efficiency at work, etc.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]Recent epidemiological studies have demonstrated that short sleep periods (less than seven hours) are strongly associated with general mortality, mainly due to cardiovascular diseases and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.[8,9] A meta-analysis found reduced chances of life among subjects who sleep a lot (more than nine hours) as well as among individuals who sleep little (less than seven hours), mainly due to cardiovascular illnesses and cancer, among women.[10]In accordance with the above manuscripts, problems with the duration and/or quality of sleep are closely related with non-transmissible chronic illnesses. Bad quality of sleep knowingly has a direct effect on the quality of human life, as it seems to be involved in increased morbidity due to autonomous dysfunction, psychiatric disorders, car and automobile accidents, early aging, depression, kidney failure, glucose intolerance, hypercortisolemia; and decreased efficiency at work, etc.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. Bad quality of sleep is important component of vulnerability in human health. This derives from the fact that the architecture and physiology of sleep is an active and complex process that is necessary to establish the physical and cognitive health of human beings
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