Sleep difficulties in college students: The role of stress, affect and cognitive processes

Quality of sleep and psychological morbidity among paramedical and medical students in Southwest Nigeria

“…In another survey, it was similarly reported that close to 70% of college students in US colleges had inadequate sleep (4). Similar results have been reported in other parts of the world among university students (5) .In Nigeria, similar results have been reported. In a recent survey, 50.1% of the undergraduates surveyed reported various forms of sleep difficulties in one Nigerian university (6).…”

The impact of stress on students in secondary school and higher education

“…Noland et al, found that 42% of 9-12 th Grade students report that stress is an impediment to good sleep, in 384 students surveyed (Noland, Price, Dake, & Telljohann, 2009). Self-perceived stress has been shown to result in poorer sleep in female university students from the United States (Lee, Wuertz, Rogers, & Chen, 2013;Wallace, Boynton, & Lytle, 2017), medical students from Saudi Arabia (Almojali, Almalki, Alothman, Masuadi, & Alaqeel, 2017), university students from Portugal (Amaral et al, 2017) and Pakistani medical school students (Waqas, Khan, Sharif, Khalid, & Ali, 2015), demonstrating the cross cultural impacts of stress on sleep quality and quantity tertiary education students. In a study from the United States, over 90% of 9-12 th Grade students reported that they have an inadequate number of hours of sleep on most school nights.…”

Salivary Cortisol Profile Under Different Stressful Situations in Female College Students: Moderating Role of Anxiety and Sleep

“…College students are known to experience a variety of stress as they faced high academic burden and uncertainties of their future. 1 Their stress leads to sleep problems, 2 although cause-and-effect relation remains unclear. Moreover, female students could be more vulnerable to the effect of stress and sleep problems due to cycling hormones.…”