Insufficient sleep in undergraduate students: an intervention based on a systematic literature review

Abstract Introduction Sleep is essencial to health, and to the performance of daily activities, and mood, memory, attention, and cognitive processes. Methods We systematically reviewed the literature about the sleep in undergratuate students from 2019 to 2020, also we applied a semi-structured questionnaire in 300 undergrate students between 18-24 years of age. Sixteen studies met inclusion criteria in databases: MEDLINE/PUBMED, SCIELO and LILACS on circadian cycle disorders and daytime sleepiness in undergraduate students. The descritptors were applied in order to delimit the articles in the objectives of this study: sleep, undergrade students, daytime sleepiness and circadian cycle disorders. We applyed on-probabilistic sampling technique using Health Educional Content Validation instrument that was composed by 15 items to analyse sleep habbits in undergratuate students. Results 7591 scientific articles were analyzed, and only 38 were submitted to the application of the PICOS strategy. We included 16 articles in this systematic literate review sample. The studies have shown that the quality of sleep in these students was straongly impaired by stress, depression, family income and behavioral variables. The answers from the Goggle forms analyses with 76.3% of excessive daytime sleepiness, in the area of the questionnaire used a scale from 1 to 5 (where 1 was very little in order to score peculiarities related to the students habits in relation to a routine that values Sleep Hygiene. Fixed times for waking up on weekdays (96, 6%), and only 24.4% of the sample had a fixed time to sleep on weekends. More than 150 students (53.2%) made no effort to stay away from the screen before sleeping. The distribution of responses showed that an average number of people try to avoid using the bed to work or watch television (73.9%) and try to avoid heavy foods before bed (83.1%). We found that the consequences of insufficient sleep, such as insomnia and daytime sleepiness were prevalente in females, and among students who didn’t practice sleep hygiene, were colays and falling asleep during class, twice the risk of depression and headache. Conclusion The prevalence of sleep disorders among undergraduated students needs to be evalute, preventing the harmful consequences in their cognitive decisions. Support (If Any)