Calidad del sueño en estudiantes universitarios de primer ciclo de Enfermería de una universidad estatal

Abstract

This study’s purpose is to determinate what’s the Global Subjective Quality of Sleep (CS) in a university students population of the First Cycle in a stately university course Bachelor of Nursing, from the city of Montevideo in Uruguay. The study design is descriptive and in a transverse cut. It is considerate as a population the enrolled students to do the course of Bachelor of Nursing, 1993 Study programme, generation of 2016. Sampling was applied for a convenience with 230 students. It was used the survey technic: it was applied the castellan version of Sleep Quality Index of Pittsburgh Colombian validation (ICSP-VC). In addition, it was applied a designed questionnaire for the study, focused to gather social-demography dates of work (paid or not) and about academic activities, and a questionnaire about stimulant substances consume. The questionnaires apply was done during July 2016. It took place the data base construction and the analyse of them by Excel 2010. It complied with the ethic precepts about investigation of enunciated human beings by the Helsinki Declaration and under the provisions of Decree 379/008. The participation in the study was volunteer and confidential. It was solicited the signature of an informed agreement form to each respondent. 66,1 % (152) of the respondent students have a bad global subjective quality of sleep (CS), according to the ICSP-VC, taking a cut point a punctuation of 6. This number is disaggregated in 35,7 % (82), which presented a level alteration; 24,3 % (56) moderated and 61,1 % (14) a severe alteration of the sleep. The obtained results justified the need and pertinent of implementing preventive and corrective actions about the sleep hygiene and giving continuity to this investigation way.