Prevalence of Sleep Problems: A Case of University Students of Pakistan
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Analysis, Sleep problems, Students, University, Pakistan.Abstract
University students have been found to have significant prevalence rates of sleep issues, such as excessive daytime sleepiness, poor sleep quality, and short sleep duration. With an eye toward estimating the incidence of these disturbances in Pakistan, this study attempts to investigate sleep problems among university students. Pre-Sleep Arousal Scale (Nicassio, Mendlowitz, Fussell & Petral, 1989) Urdu version was administered on 600 (Male =248, Female = 352) age range 18 to 25 from five different universities of Lahore. Study results indicated that frequency of students experiencing moderate level of sleep problems is higher and almost 19% of students experience severe and very severe sleep problems. Results also indicated that sleep problems have significant effect on students’ performance as well as male and female students experience same level of disturbances. Further results were discussed in the cultural context.
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