A study of sleep quality and correlative factors among senior high school students

Objective To understand the status of sleep quality among senior high school students.Methods 1227 senior high school students were surveyed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI).Results There was 27.2% of the students had sleep problems,especially in the factors of daytime dysfunction,sleep time,subjective sleep quality and sleep latency.Significant differences existed in sleep time(p0.05) and daytime dysfunction(p0.01) in sex;Significant differences existed in sleep latency(p0.001),sleep time(p0.001) and daytime dysfunction(p0.05) in grades;Students living in school and from rural had significant sleep problems.Significant differences existed in subjective sleep quality(p0.001),sleep latency(p0.001)and total sleep quality(p0.05)whether students were only-children.Conclusion There were sleep problems of senior high school students.Measures should be taken to improve sleep quality.