Assessment of sleep quality of Physical Education and Sport and Kynetictherapy students of the West University of Timisoara

An important factor involved in students learning process, is sleep quality. Using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ( PSQI) we tried to assess the sleep quality of the students of the Physical Education and Sport Faculty of the West University of Timisoara, during end term period 2013. The questionnaire was applied on 50 students of the faculty. From the 50 questionnaires we had to exclude 6, due to mistaken completion. The results of the study show that a little more then half from the students participant to the study recorded a Total PSQI > 5, which is associated with poor sleep quality. In their case, duration of sleep was shorter than 7 hours / night, did have sleep disturbance, did have a longer sleep latency, reported day dysfunction due to sleepiness, medium to poor sleep quality and sleep efficiency, but did not use sleep medication ( with 2 exceptions, who recognised the use of sleep meds for several times a week, during the assesed period). It might be possible that the rather large number of students recorded with sleep disturbance is due tu the period we applied the test. During end term examination period, students are temptate to perform, last minute study", depriving them selfs of sleep and consuming energy drinks and coffee.