Factors Affecting Sleep Quality of Students in the Faculty of Public and Environmental Health of Huachiew Chalermprakiet University

Abstract

This descriptive research study aims to study the level of sleep quality and factors affecting the students’ sleep quality, in the faculty of Public and Environmental Health of Huachiew Chalermprakiet University. The sample size of 199 students was used to study personal factors, sleep quality, sleep behaviors, stress and environment. The research instrument was a questionnaire of 5 parts. The content validity of the questionnaire was examined by 3 experts. The Item Objective Congruence (IOC) index is between 0.67-1.00 of the questionnaire. The confidence values of the questionnaire, sleep quality, sleep behavior, stress and environment were 0.71, 0.71, 0.76 and 0.72, respectively. This study used frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation for data analyzed. Simple Regression Analysis was used to predict factors affecting the sleep quality of students, in the faculty of Public and Environmental Health of Huachiew Chalermprakiet University.

The results of this study showed that the students of the faculty of Public and Environmental Health of Huachiew Chalermprakiet University had the sleep quality at a moderate level (x̄= 2.75, S.D = 0.80) and sleep behavior factor affecting sleep quality was significant at the level of 0.05 (b = 0.336, p < 0.05, R² = 0.117), while the stress factors did not significantly affect the sleep quality at a level of 0.05 (b = -0.098, p > 0.05, R² = 0.010). In addition, the environment factor did not significantly affect the sleep quality at a level of 0.05 (b = -0.157, p > 0.05, R² = 0.013.)