Qualidade do sono de universitários da área de ciências da saúde e os fatores associados : Sleep Quality of University Students in the Health Sciences Field and Associated Factors

Alexia Gomes Souza; Joyce Mazza Nunes Aragão; Eliany Nazaré Oliveira; Maristela Ines Osawa Vasconcelos

doi:10.17765/2176-9206.2025v18e13314

Authors

Alexia Gomes Souza Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6921-132X
Joyce Mazza Nunes Aragão Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2865-579X
Eliany Nazaré Oliveira Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6408-7243
Maristela Ines Osawa Vasconcelos Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-8850

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17765/2176-9206.2025v18e13314

Keywords:

Health Sciences Students, Sleep, College students

Abstract

Sleep is essential for physical and mental recovery, including memory and learning. This study analyzed the sleep quality of 393 Nursing and Physical Education students from the Vale do Acaraú State University, using sociodemographic data and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), validated in Brazil by Bertolazi. Results indicated that 77% of the students had poor sleep quality, 20% presented sleep disorders, and only 2.54% showed good sleep quality. Factors such as being female, a Nursing student, bisexual, having chronic diseases, or using medication for mental health issues were associated with poorer sleep quality. Additionally, 37% of participants reported weekly use of sleep medications and difficulties falling asleep. The study revealed a high prevalence of poor sleep among Health Sciences students, related to sociodemographic and health factors, impacting academic and mental well-being.

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Author Biographies

Alexia Gomes Souza, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from the Vale do Acaraú State University - UVA. Itapajé, Ceará - Brazil.

Joyce Mazza Nunes Aragão, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú

Nurse from the Vale do Acaraú State University - UVA (2002). She has a Residency in Family Health from the Visconde de Sabóia School of Health Training / Vale do Acaraú State University - UVA (2004), Specialization in Obstetric Nursing (UVA), Specialist in Professional Education in the Health Area: Nursing (ENSP / FIOCRUZ), Master's Degree in Nursing from the Federal University of Ceará (2010) and Doctorate in Nursing from the Federal University of Ceará (2016). She is currently an Adjunct Professor of the Nursing Course at the Vale do Acaraú State University - UVA in Sobral-CE and permanent professor of the Professional Master's Degree in Family Health - Northeast Network for Training in Family Health (RENASF) and of the Master's Degree in Family Health at the Federal University of Ceará - UFC. She worked as a Family Health Strategy Nurse for 16 years in the cities of Sobral-CE and Fortaleza - CE, during which time she was the manager of 3 Primary Health Care Units. She was a preceptor of the Integrated Health Residency - RIS, with a concentration area in Family Health at the Ceará School of Public Health - ESP (2010 - 2011, 2014 - 2016). She has experience in the area of Nursing, with an emphasis on Family Health, Obstetric Nursing, Child and Adolescent Health, Health Promotion, Educational Technologies in Health and University Extension. Supervisor of Master's, Undergraduate, Scientific Initiation and University Extension projects.

Eliany Nazaré Oliveira, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú

She has a degree in Nursing from the Federal University of Ceará (1992), a master's degree in Nursing from the Federal University of Ceará (1999) and a PhD in Nursing from the Federal University of Ceará (2004). Post-doctorate from the University of Porto - Pt with research on the "HEALTH STATUS AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF BRAZILIAN IMMIGRANTS IN PORTUGAL". She is currently an Associate Professor at the Vale do Acaraú State University, teaching professional and academic master's degrees in Family Health. She worked as a tutor for PET MENTAL HEALTH (2010 - 2011) and during the period 2013 - 2015 she coordinated PET HEALTH CARE NETWORKS with 48 scholarship students, 04 teaching tutors and 24 preceptors from the municipal health system of Sobral. She worked in the Institutional Clinical Supervision of the CAPS of Cruz and Acaraú, CE for 12 months. She is currently the Teaching Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary League in Mental Health - LISAM. She has experience in the area of Nursing, with an emphasis on Mental Health, working mainly on the following topics: Suicide, mental health, violence, family health, women's health and mental health promotion. Coordinator of the Study, Extension and Research Group Mental Health and Care. She was a Scholarship Holder of the Research Productivity and Stimulation of Interiorization Program - BPI / FUNCAP of the following editions (2008 - 2012, 2018, 2020) and is currently a Scholarship Holder of the Research Productivity and Stimulation of Interiorization Program - BPI / FUNCAP (2022 - 2024) Project Title: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND MENTAL HEALTH IN UNIVERSITIES

Maristela Ines Osawa Vasconcelos, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú

She holds a PhD and Master's degree in Nursing in the area of concentration Community Health from the Federal University of Ceará and a Post-doctorate in Clinical Care in Nursing and Health from the State University of Ceará, where she graduated in Nursing. At the Vale do Acaraú State University, she assumes the functions of a research professor in the undergraduate Nursing program, in the Obstetric Nursing Residency Program, in the Professional Postgraduate Program in Family Health - RENASF / UVA [Master's and Professional Doctorate], assuming the function of Coordinator. She is currently the Pro-Rector of Continuing Education - PROED, appointed in April 2022. She coordinated the Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings at UVA, 2011-2017. She served from 2014-2018 as Pro-Rector of Extension and Culture - PROEX. She served from 2018-2021 as Pro-Rector of Research and Graduate Studies - PRPPG. She was Director of the UVA Health Sciences Center from 2008 to 2014. She was coordinator of the Nursing Course from 2000 to 2007. She served as coordinator of Pró-Saude I (2006-2008) and Pró-Saúde/Pet-Saúde (2012-2014). She served as tutor of Pet-Saúde/Family Health (2010-2012) and Pet-Saúde/GraduaSUS (2016-2018). He was a scholarship holder of the Research Productivity and Incentive to Interiorization Scholarship Program - BPI/FUNCAP editions 2008, 2012, 2018 and 2022. He has experience in the area of health training and research on the following topics: Training and Teaching in Health; Primary Health Care; Evaluation of educational programs and health services. Research member of the Nós APS Brasil Research Group. Leader of the Research and Extension Group in Teaching, Technology and Health - GPETS; Vice leader of the research group Laboratory of Social Research, Transformative Education and Public Health - LABSUS. Member of the Evaluators' Bank of the National Higher Education Assessment System - BASis since 2006.

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