Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.
Department of Economics, Applied Statistics and International Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.
Sci Rep. 2023 Jul 18;13(1):11620. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38713-6.
Sleep is responsible for maintenance and regulatory functions in human physiology. Insufficient sleep has been associated with cardiovascular disease, weight gain, obesity, inflammation, and morbidity. University students are at high risk under normal circumstances of stress and anxiety due to extracurricular demands, competing pressures on student time, long study hours, and financial concerns. The COVID 19 pandemic has disrupted normal college students' lives adding stresses such as lost jobs and family responsibilities such as serving as caregivers, which disproportionally affect minority and rural student. This study aimed to assess the correlation of sleep disorders in New Mexico State University students during COVID 19 with selected variates including base demographics (e.g., gender, age, etc.), lifestyle metrics (e.g., employment status, discipline, class, etc.), living arrangements (e.g., housing type, number of children, etc.), alcohol and tobacco use, vaccination status, family COVID status, and family vaccination status. Single- and multi-factor logistic regressions were performed to analyze the data on the students. Qualtrics software was used to collect data on demographics and sleep disorders. R software was used for data analysis. Correlations were found between sleeping less, sleeping more, and disturbed sleep among several covariate categories. For all three responses, being married (sleeping less: OR = 0.342, 95% CI = 0.181-0.642, sleeping more: OR = 0.265, 95% CI = 0.111-0.591; disturbed sleeping: OR = 0.345, 95% CI = 0.182-0.650), frequency of feeling sleepy-very often (OR = 16.87, 95% CI = 6.571-47.434; OR = 8.393, 95% CI = 3.086-25.298; OR = 13.611, 95% CI = 5.409-36.975) and change in diet- quality decreased (OR = 7.304, 95% CI = 3.615-15.270; OR = 5.250, 95% CI = 2.309-12.558; OR = 4.181, 95% CI = 2.145-8.359) were all significant correlated to change in sleeping behavior. Other correlations were found among covariates and sleep changes. Several covariates were determined to be correlated with the effect of COVID-19 on sleeping.
睡眠对人体生理的维护和调节功能至关重要。睡眠不足与心血管疾病、体重增加、肥胖、炎症和发病有关。大学生在正常情况下由于课外需求、学生时间的竞争压力、长时间学习和经济问题，处于高压力和焦虑的风险之中。COVID-19 大流行扰乱了正常大学生的生活，增加了失业和家庭责任（如照顾者）等压力，这对少数民族和农村学生产生了不成比例的影响。本研究旨在评估 COVID-19 期间新墨西哥州立大学学生睡眠障碍与选定变量的相关性，包括基本人口统计学特征（如性别、年龄等）、生活方式指标（如就业状况、学科、班级等）、居住安排（如住房类型、儿童数量等）、酒精和烟草使用、疫苗接种状况、家庭 COVID 状况和家庭疫苗接种状况。对学生进行单因素和多因素逻辑回归分析。使用 Qualtrics 软件收集人口统计学和睡眠障碍数据。使用 R 软件进行数据分析。在几个协变量类别中发现了睡眠时间较少、睡眠时间较多和睡眠不安之间的相关性。对于所有三种反应，已婚（睡眠时间较少：OR=0.342，95%CI=0.181-0.642；睡眠时间较多：OR=0.265，95%CI=0.111-0.591；睡眠不安：OR=0.345，95%CI=0.182-0.650）、经常感到困倦（OR=16.87，95%CI=6.571-47.434；OR=8.393，95%CI=3.086-25.298；OR=13.611，95%CI=5.409-36.975）和饮食质量下降（OR=7.304，95%CI=3.615-15.270；OR=5.250，95%CI=2.309-12.558；OR=4.181，95%CI=2.145-8.359）与睡眠行为变化显著相关。在协变量和睡眠变化之间也发现了其他相关性。几个协变量被确定与 COVID-19 对睡眠的影响有关。
