Interrupted sleep: College students sleeping with technology.

To examine the influence of cell phones and sleep quality among college students and the prevalence of sleep texting. Participants were 372 college students at two mid-size universities in 2013. A survey was used to ask about cell phone use during sleep and sleep quality. Students were asked about hours of sleep, both on a school night, and over the weekend in addition to location of cell phone. A quarter of the sample (25.6%) reported sleep texting behavior along with poor sleep quality and the cell phone influencing their sleep ( < .05). Students that sleep text were more likely to report sleep interruption ( < .000), to place their phone in bed with them ( < .000), have no memory of texting (72%) or what they texted (25%). Sleep texting and its influence on poor sleep habits is a growing trend in a college student population.