Angel Thampy|Undergraduate Student|Patricia Carter
0795 Effect of Sleep Health Literacy on Sleep Quality in Emerging Adults
The University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin
poor sleep linked devastating health academic outcomes however many college students prioritize sleep relationship sleep health literacy sleep quality emerging adults needs study assessed sleep health literacy sleep quality course semester students enrolled sleep focused course study used descriptive paired design explore relationship sleep perceptions sleep quality proxy sleep health literacy sleep hygiene practices respectively fulltime undergraduate students university texas austin currently enrolled freshman signature course sleep getting enough invited participate sleep beliefs scale sbs pittsburgh sleep quality index psqi administered first fourteenth weeks semester using redcap surveys 161 201 enrolled students completed surveys participants primarily female 543 asian 488 first semester freshmen 889 living campus 556 one roommate 586 students represented wide range majors eg business sciences liberal arts health sciences baseline means psqi global 787 sbs 1350 scores reflect moderate sleep disturbance low sleep literacy time 2 follow scores showed statistically significantly improved sleep literacy scores t2822 p0005 maintenance sleep quality psqi decrease 048 points t1 t2 course semester emerging adults roughly ages 18 22 vulnerable sleep disturbances students demonstrated improvement sleep health literacy would expected however also reported small improvement global sleep quality finding encouraging face expected significant decrease sleep quality commonly observed first year college study supports hypothesis active education importance sleep personal health well academic success improve sleep health literacy possibly prevent expected drop sleep quality freshman college students support