Sleep Quality of Physiotherapy Students Quality of Life and Physical Activity Level (SleepQuality)

Sleep Quality Among Physiotherapy Students and Its Relation to Quality of Life and Physical Activity Level

There is a high prevalence of poor sleep quality among university students studying in different areas such as medicine, nursing, art, science, social work etc. and in different countries. However, the studies done especially for physiotherapy students, and in Turkey, as well, are not many. Therefore, we aimed to search the sleep quality among physiotherapy students, and observe the association between the health related quality of life and physical activity level of the physiotherapy students.

The physiotherapy students were included. Their quality of sleep will be assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The physical activity will be searched by International Physical Activity Questionnaire, and SF-36 will be used to assess quality of life. Data is going to analyzed statistically

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Quality of Life; Physical Activity; Sleep Quality
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); Behavioral: International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ); Behavioral: The Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36)

Detailed Description

Therefore, recent studies are focusing on the sleep quality of university students in different countries, and reporting that medical students pharmacy students, nursing students are experiencing poor quality of sleep. However, to our knowledge, studies done on sleep quality of students and especially the physiotherapy students are not available in Turkey, yet.

Hence, since the university students are one of the high risk groups for developing poor sleep quality, we aimed to evaluate if the sleep quality of the physiotherapy students in both gender are associated with their quality of life and physical activity level.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 300
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Istanbul, Turkey, 34010
    • Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istinye University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 26 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being physiotherapy and rehabilitation students
• Being the age between 18-26 years old
• Being voluntary to participate to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having any systemic disease
• Any expressed psychological condition

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Other: Physiotherapy students; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-PSQI:The sleep quality was evaluated through the Turkish version of the PSQI containing 19 self-rated questions searching the sleep quality during the previous month; International Physical Activity Questionnaire-IPAQ: The physical activity of the participants was assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form (IPAQ-SF), which includes 6 questions searching the frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, as well as the intensity of physical activity in the last seven days.; Short Form-36-SF-36: The Turkish version of SF-36 was used to understand the health related quality-of -life (HRQOL) of the participants over the past four weeks in eight health concepts.

Behavioral: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); The sleep quality was evaluated through the Turkish version of the PSQI containing 19 self-rated questions searching the sleep quality during the previous month. It has seven components as subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medications, and daytime dysfunction. Each component is scored from 0 to 3, and the Global Pittsburgh Quality of Sleep (PQS) score is the sum of the scores of the seven components that is between 0 and 21. The higher Global PQS scores indicate poor sleep quality and the cut off score for poor sleep is 5 and over.; Other Names: IPAQ, SF-36 Quality of life; Behavioral: International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ); The physical activity of the participants was assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form (IPAQ-SF), which includes 6 questions searching the frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, as well as low, moderate and vigorous physical activity that they engaged in during the last seven days prior to survey. Vigorous physical activity, defined by the questionnaire, referred to intense exercise that resulted in very rapid breathing and an elevated heart rate (e.g. intense weight lifting, aerobics, running, and cycling). Moderate physical activity was defined as less intense exercise that slightly heightened breathing and heart rate (e.g. less exertive cycling, fast walking, and light weight lifting).; Other Names: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, SF-36; Behavioral: The Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36); The Turkish version of SF-36 was used to understand the health related quality-of -life (HRQOL) of the participants over the past four weeks in eight health concepts: limitations in physical activities because of health problems; limitations in social activities because of physical or emotional problems; limitations in usual role activities because of physical health problems; bodily pain; general mental health (psychological distress and well-being); limitations in usual role activities because of emotional problems; vitality (energy and fatigue); and general health perceptions. Additionally, the psychometric evaluation of the SF-36 generated two summary scores as the Mental Health Component Score and the Physical Health Component Score that the higher scores indicate better HRQOL.; Other Names: IPAQ, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Sleep Quality	The sleep quality of the students will be evaluated by means of the Turkish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index through face-to-face interview. This assessment will provide us information about the type and duration of their sleep as well as their sleep efficiency, if there are any sleep disturbances or if they are using any sleep medications or not. Additionally, this will provide us about if the sleep quality affects their daytime functions.	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Physical activity	The physical activity of the participants will assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form. The frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, the intensity of their physical activity as if they are low, moderately and vigorously physical active or not will be searched. This covers the duration of the last seven days prior to survey.	3 months

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Health related quality-of -life	The Turkish version of SF-36 will used to understand the health related quality-of -life of the participants over the past four weeks. The eight health concepts: limitations in physical activities because of health problems; limitations in social activities because of physical or emotional problems; limitations in usual role activities because of physical health problems; bodily pain; general mental health (psychological distress and well-being); limitations in usual role activities because of emotional problems; vitality (energy and fatigue); and general health perceptions will be searched. These outcomes will be grouped as physical component summary and mental component summary. The norm data is 0-100, the health related quality of life is increases as the scores are increased. The average score is 50.	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Istinye University
• Investigators: Study Chair: Ekin Aktay Karlik, MSc, Istanbul University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Manzar MD, Zannat W, Hussain ME, Pandi-Perumal SR, Bahammam AS, Barakat D, Ojike NI, Olaish A, Spence DW. Dimensionality of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in the collegiate young adults. Springerplus. 2016 Sep 13;5(1):1550. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-3234-x. eCollection 2016.
• Almojali AI, Almalki SA, Alothman AS, Masuadi EM, Alaqeel MK. The prevalence and association of stress with sleep quality among medical students. J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2017 Sep;7(3):169-174. doi: 10.1016/j.jegh.2017.04.005. Epub 2017 May 5.
• Chang SP, Shih KS, Chi CP, Chang CM, Hwang KL, Chen YH. Association Between Exercise Participation and Quality of Sleep and Life Among University Students in Taiwan. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2016 May;28(4):356-67. doi: 10.1177/1010539516645160. Epub 2016 Apr 28.
• Elagra MI, Rayyan MR, Alnemer OA, Alshehri MS, Alsaffar NS, Al-Habib RS, Almosajen ZA. Sleep quality among dental students and its association with academic performance. J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2016 Jul-Aug;6(4):296-301. doi: 10.4103/2231-0762.186788.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 3, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): September 15, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 31, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 18, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): January 23, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 18, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 13, 2022
• Last Verified: May 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Sleep quality; Body mass index; Academic performance; Active life
• Other Study ID Numbers: ISU

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No