Sleep Patterns and Health Behaviors in Healthcare Students.
Objectives: Personal health behavior can influence the academic development of healthcare students. This study was designed to evaluate the personal health behavior, including sleep time, of healthcare students at a large health sciences center.Methods: An anonymous online survey based on standardiz...
| Publicado en: | Southern Medical Journal Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 104 - 111 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Mar2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=141995925&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 141995925 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00384348 SOU jtl: Southern Medical Journal issn: 00384348 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2020 vid: 113 iid: 3 pid: 5086 pub: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins place: Baltimore, Maryland artinfo: ui: 141995925 141995925 NLM32123923 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001077 NLM32123923 141995925 ppf: 104 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Sleep Patterns and Health Behaviors in Healthcare Students. aug: au: Nugent, Kenneth Raj, Rishi Nugent, Rebecca affil: From the Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, the Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, California, and the Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. sug: subj: Health Behavior Students Psychosocial Factors Colleges and Universities Statistics and Numerical Data Adult Health Personnel Statistics and Numerical Data Middle Age Stress, Psychological Psychosocial Factors Depression Psychosocial Factors Insomnia Etiology Sleep Female Aged Students Statistics and Numerical Data Alcoholism Etiology Health Personnel Psychosocial Factors Texas Insomnia Psychosocial Factors Alcoholism Psychosocial Factors Stress, Psychological Complications Male Colleges and Universities Administration Health Personnel Education Exercise Psychosocial Factors Depression Etiology Scales Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Female Male ab: Objectives: Personal health behavior can influence the academic development of healthcare students. This study was designed to evaluate the personal health behavior, including sleep time, of healthcare students at a large health sciences center.Methods: An anonymous online survey based on standardized questionnaires about sleep, insomnia, depression, alcohol use, and exercise was sent to all of the healthcare students (including medical, nursing, pharmacy, graduate biomedical science, and allied health students) in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center graduate education programs in Lubbock.Results: In total, 412 students replied to this survey. Their mean sleep duration during the weekday was 7.5 ± 1.2 hours; 16.5% were short sleepers (<7 hours) during weekdays; 33% of the students woke up "feeling tired or worn out" >15 days during the last month. Many students were either moderately or severely bothered by "the lack of energy" because of poor sleep, and 56.6% of students rated their sleep as either fair or poor. Approximately 35% of students had drinking patterns that qualified as hazardous drinking, 6.3% of students smoked, and 23% of students did not do even mild exercise during the week. Eighty-nine percent of students reported stress in their life, including family stress, job stress, financial stress, legal stress, and other stress. Thirty-five percent of students considered their health as either poor or fair. Approximately 50% of students did not expect any change in their situation during the next 3 to 6 months.Conclusions: Although most healthcare students report adequate sleep times, more than half of them rate their sleep as fair or poor. In addition, some have poor health habits, including excessive alcohol use. Health science centers should introduce programs to promote healthy behaviors and reduce stress in healthcare students. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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