Health Care : Current Reviews

The impact of stress factors on sleep quality of female nursing students of a Brazilian university

Global Healthcare & Fitness Summit

July 20-22, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Fillipe Grando Lopes, Bruna Ruviaro Muller, Ana Lúcia Siqueira Costa, Rodrigo Marques da Silva, Luis Felipe Dias Lopes

Public University of Santa Maria

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Abstract:

Several situations from academic environment may be assessed as stressful for nursing students, affecting their sleep quality. However, investigations evaluating these phenomena among female nursing students are limited, what is needed once these individual may accumulate the academic activities to domestic ones, including children and partner care. So, we analyzed the impact of stress factors on sleep quality of female nursing students of a Brazilian university. Methods: An analytical crosssectional and quantitative study was conducted with 143 female nursing students in Sao Paulo between March and April of 2012. The Instrument to Evaluate Stress in Nursing Students and the Pittsburgh Sleep Index were applied for data collection. Qui-square test were employed to associate the stress factors to sleep quality. (P<0.05) were considered statistically significant. High levels of stress were predominant for Time Management (50.99%). Environment represented high stress for 42.38% of female students and moderate stress for 45.70% of them. The low sleep quality (79.02%) was prevalent for this population and was significant associated to Professional Training (p = 0.01), being that female students with moderate (40.56%) and high stress (28.67%) showed poor sleep quality when compared to students with low stress level (9.79%). Time Management and Environment were assessed as factors that caused higher stress in female students, and the stress linked to Professional Training impacted on their sleep quality. Universities should develop strategies focused on these factors to reduce stressing, so, improve sleep quality of students, phenomena that may affect life quality and professional performance.

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Email: lflopes67@yahoo.com.br