Prevalance of sleep deprivation and associated factors among jimma university institute of health students in, south west Ethiopia

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.