Abstract:
Background: Getting sufficient sleep is one of the most important things that we can do to
keep our body and mind healthy. However, Sleep deprivation is common among university
students. Sleep deprivation has been associated with physical illness, substance use and
excessive use of electronic device. There is scarcity of data about sleep deprivation and its
associated factor among university student in Ethiopia.
Objective: To assess the prevalence of sleep deprivation and associated factors among
Jimma university, institute of health student, 2019.
Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among Jimma University
institute of health students. Data was collected from April 10 to April 24/2019. A total of
374 participants were selected through systmatic random sampling method on striatified
data were collected using self-administered questionnaire. The collected data was cleaned,
coded and entered into Epi data version 4.4.1 and then exported to SPSS version 23 for
analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify the
associated factors OR with 95% CI. In multivariate logistic regression P < 0.05 was
considered as statistically significant. Descriptive statistics results was presented by using
text, tables and graph.
Result: A total of 365 participants were included in the study with a response rate of
97.6%. The prevalence of sleep deprivation was 222(60.8%). Accordingly, (256)56.4% had
<7 hours sleep duration 197(54%) have no day time disfunction and 149 (68.2%) had sleep
latency. There was a significant association in physical illness than non physical illness
(AOR=1.91;95% CI (1.01, 3.58,), CGPA (AOR=0.48; 95% CI ( 0.27, 0.83), excessive time
use of electronic device before bed (AOR=5.26;95% CI (1.78, 15.52), and then alcohol drink,
[AOR=0.42 95 % CI in (0.2, 0.89), khat chewing [AOR=0.47; 95% CI (0.12, 0.82,)
satastically significantly associated p < 0.05.
Conclusison: Our study showed that sleep deprivation is common among institute of health
students in Jimma university. Generally, institute of health student had, Physical illness,
CGPA, alcohol, cigarette smoking, khat chewing and use of electronic device were
significant predictors. Education on sleep hygiene techniques and its application would be
beneficial in this student population.
