Research Paper
Year: 2022 | Month: October-December | Volume: 6 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 5-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20221002
A Descriptive Study to Assess the Quality of Sleep Among Nursing Students in Selected Nursing College
Rimzim. B. Mangekar1, Pradnya. D. Meshram1, Karishma Kharole1, Upeksha Kalambe1, Aarti Nagelwar1, Pooja Pahade1, Sanghpriya Meshram1, Sushil Humane2
1Final Year Basic B.Sc Nursing, Kasturba Nursing College, MUHS Nashik, Sewagram, Maharashtra, India
2Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Nursing College, MUHS Nashik, Sewagram, Maharashtra, India
Corresponding Author: Rimzim. B. Mangekar
ABSTRACT
Sleep health is crucial for general health, safety and standard of health, comfort and happiness. Poor sleep is responsible for attention deficit, impaired driving, decreased academic performance, unconsciously controlled behavior, depression, weak social interaction and substandard health. The purpose of the study was to assess the quality of sleep among nursing students and to associate the findings with the selected demographic variables. Non probability sampling technique has been used to select samples. The samples have been drawn from selected nursing college and selection is done on easy geographical accessibility, cooperation and availability of samples. 165 students met the inclusion criteria. Analysis has been done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Based on the objectives the data was analysed by using various statistical tests i.e percentage, mean and standard deviation. 23% student were in the age group of 21 years, 66% were doing physical exercise, 81% were from course Basic B.Sc Nursing, 90% were not consuming coffee, 93% were female and 99% were not using any drug. The finding shows that 18.20% nursing students had poor quality of sleep and 81.80% of students had good quality of sleep. Mean score of the subject was 43.70 and standard deviation was 0.65.
From this analysis it was found that majority of nursing students were having good sleep quality and some of nursing students were having poor sleep quality.
Keywords: Sleep Quality, Nursing students, Nursing college
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