Xu Lijing, Yan Wenjing, Hua Guohuan, He Ziqing, Wu Chunmei, Hao Ming
School of Public Health and Health Management, Gannan Medical University, University Park, Rongjiang New Area, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, 341000, China.
Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China.
BMC Psychiatry. 2025 Jan 2;25(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-06450-3.
Colleges and universities are currently facing the major public health issue of poor sleep quality. Sleep quality must be taken seriously to maintain the students' emotional and physical well-being. Thus, this study sought to determine how university students' levels of physical activity related to the quality of their sleep, as well as to explore the mechanisms via which physical activity affects sleep and provide suggestions for improving it.
A total of 883 university students from Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China participated in the study. Their physical activity, sleep quality, ruminative thinking levels, and depression were assessed using various questionnaires.
Through the mediating effects of rumination and depression as well as the chain-mediated effects of these two factors, physical exercise changed the quality of sleep.
University students' sleep quality can be improved by increasing their physical activity and decreasing ruminative thinking and depression levels.
高校目前正面临睡眠质量差这一重大公共卫生问题。必须重视睡眠质量以维护学生的身心健康。因此,本研究旨在确定大学生的身体活动水平与他们的睡眠质量之间的关系,以及探讨身体活动影响睡眠的机制,并提供改善睡眠的建议。
来自中国江西省赣州市的883名大学生参与了本研究。使用各种问卷对他们的身体活动、睡眠质量、反刍思维水平和抑郁情况进行了评估。
通过反刍和抑郁的中介作用以及这两个因素的链式中介作用,体育锻炼改变了睡眠质量。
可以通过增加大学生的身体活动以及降低反刍思维和抑郁水平来改善他们的睡眠质量。