Surveying the level of awareness regarding the importance of sleep and evaluation of sleep quality using PSQI scale for first-year students at Ho Chi Minh City University of The Physical Education and Sports

Abstract

The research was to survey the level of awareness regarding the importance of sleep among first-year students at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Physical Education and Sports. It also evaluated sleep quality through the use of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The research used the method of building a survey questionnaire, including two main parts: survey on the level of awareness regarding the importance of sleep for students and evaluation of sleep quality through the Vietnamese version of the sleep quality questionnaire PSQI. Results showed that, the students' mean PSQI score was 4.24 (SD = 2.64); up to 88.3% of students self-rated their sleep quality as good, but survey results recorded only 68.5% of participants actually had good sleep quality (PSQI scores ≤ 5); the percentage of students with poor sleep quality was 31.5% (PSQI scores > 5).