The organization of sleep-wake patterns around daily schedules in college students

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Sleep Research Society..

Time is a zero-sum game, and consequently, sleep is often sacrificed for waking activities. For college students, daily activities, comprised of scheduled classes, work, study, social and other extracurricular events, are major contributors to insufficient and poor-quality sleep. We investigated the impact of daily schedules on sleep-wake timing in 223 undergraduate students (age: 18-27 years, 37% females) from a United States (U.S.) university, monitored for approximately 30 days. Sleep-wake timing and daily recorded activities (attendance at academic, studying, exercise-based and/or extracurricular activities) were captured by a twice-daily internet-based diary. Wrist-worn actigraphy was conducted to confirm sleep-wake timing. Linear mixed models were used to quantify associations between daily schedule and sleep-wake timing at between-person and within-person levels. Later schedule start time predicted later sleep onset (between and within: p<.001), longer sleep duration on the previous night (within: p<.001), and later wake time (between and within: p<.001). Later schedule end time predicted later sleep onset (between: p<.05, within: p<.001) and shorter sleep duration that night (within: p<.001). For every 1 hour that recorded activities extended beyond 10pm, sleep onset was delayed by 15 minutes at the within-person level and 45 minutes at the between-person level, and sleep duration was shortened by 5 and 23 minutes, respectively. Increased daily documented total activity time predicted earlier wake (between and within: p<.001), later sleep onset that night (within: p<.05), and shorter sleep duration (within: p<.001). These results indicate that daily schedules are an important factor in shaping sleep timing and duration in college students.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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Sleep - (2023) vom: 01. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lu, Sinh [VerfasserIn]
Stone, Julia E [VerfasserIn]
Klerman, Elizabeth B [VerfasserIn]
McHill, Andrew W [VerfasserIn]
Barger, Laura K [VerfasserIn]
Robbins, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Fischer, Dorothee [VerfasserIn]
Sano, Akane [VerfasserIn]
Czeisler, Charles A [VerfasserIn]
Rajaratnam, Shantha M W [VerfasserIn]
Phillips, Andrew J K [VerfasserIn]

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Academic
Actigraphy
Daily Schedule
Exercise
Extracurricular Activities
Journal Article
Sleep Hygiene

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Date Revised 03.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1093/sleep/zsad278

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364226242