Factors That Affect Sleep During African American College Students And The Relationship Between Their Sleep And Study Habits

Are you tired and having trouble paying attention in class? Focusing on tasks at hand? Or just completely being overall unproductive? The average college student is deprived at least two full hours asleep each night according to “College Tidbits” a website designed to promote healthy lifestyles and productivity in daily college life. These results were pooled from multiple surveys done over hundreds of campuses throughout the United States. Today, I hope to persuade you to fight the statistics and get those extra two hours of sleep. Do what it takes to get the full seven to nine hours that is suggested by the Mayo Clinic. I will discuss two problems. Why college students are not

The consequences of sleep deprivation during the teenage years are particularly serious. Teens spend a great portion of each day in school when it starts early; resulting in a lack of sleep. Ultimately, sleep deprivation affects a student’s academic performance. When students lose sleep, they disrupt their sleep cycles and their bodies respond by decreasing their ability to concentrate and complete complex tasks. A prolonged period of cumulative sleep deprivation will affect their physical and mental well-being and consequently their capacity to learn.

Sleep deprivation is a serious concern among college students, who are "among the most sleep-deprived age group in the United States," (Central Michigan University, 2008). It is important to study the causes of sleep deprivation, or sleep disorders, among college students. According to Park (2009), "dozens of studies have linked an increase in nightly sleep to better cognition and alertness." A study by Central Michigan University (2008) found that sleep deprivation can lead to poor academic performance, impaired driving, depression, and behavioral problems. There are several variables that may affect sleeping patterns among college students. One is genetics or biological issues. It is highly

Specific Purpose: Sleep and college students usually don’t tend to get along very well. Sleep and college life often bump heads due to stress, coursework and social activities. This speech will give the students useful information about dangers of not getting enough sleep and also hints on how to get a better nights sleep.

Being sleep deprived can also affect driving, can affect performance in school, and can lead to illness (Iarovici, 2014, p. 32). Social activities in college contribute to sleep problems, for example, drug use and heavy alcohol drinking (Iarovici, 2014, p. 32). However, sleep problems are not only caused by unhealthy lifestyles. Sleep problems during college years, a major time of development, can be a sign of mental illness such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder (Iarovici, 2014, p. 40). However, there are students who try have tried everything to fall asleep (e.g., not drink alcohol or caffeinated drinks) and they still experience sleeping problems. Some people have genes that cause them to be more alert during the night than in the morning, and others have delayed sleep syndrome, in which circadian rhythms are abnormal (Iarovici, 2014, p. 42). Delayed sleep syndrome is more common in young adults and interestingly, people obtain enough sleep, but they tend to fall asleep during the early morning than during the night (Iarovici, 2014, p. 42). Even though the individual may be getting eight hours of sleep, such a shift in sleeping time can lead to individuals feeling depressed because they cannot enjoy the activities others enjoy during the day, and can lead to individuals having

Indeed, while although college students can finish up assignments and finish up tasks by staying up, it can lead to more negative turn of events than positive, college students should have better sleep hygiene for a better academic life because they are unable to memorizing information to long term memory, unable to function properly in the day and tend to fail classes, and college students tend to have more anxiety and a negative mood towards people. These negative effects can lead a college student to fail classes and live a stressful life. If more college students understand their bodies and the importance of sleep and how it can actually benefit their well-being, it can lead to less stressed out faces and the overwhelming smell of coffee

Teens aren't getting enough sleep and the cause of this could affect their academic performance. African-Americans have more sleep deficits than other races in the grades 9 through 12. The less time spent in school could be more time to sleep and perform better at other things.

College life is exciting and fresh for most of students. Suddenly, students are free from parents’ rules and began taking care of self. However, the excitement could causes problems like having a life lack of schedule, binge drinking, and pressure from academic performance. A lot of students might experience a long term lack of sleep or poor sleep quality. The purpose of this research is finding out the relationship between average sleep hours and GPA on college students.

Due to reports of the consequences of lack of sleep in adolescents and children (i.e. Alfano et al., 2007; Gregory et al., 2005; Link & Ancoli-Israel, 1995; Meijer et al., 2000; Wolfson & Carskadon, 1998), the current study aimed to establish whether variations in sleep significantly affected the well-being and academic attainment of university students. It was hypothesised that those students with insufficient sleep would experience negative effects to their well-being and achieve poorer grades in university, and this would remain when controlling for the established predictors of both well-being and academic attainment.

Sleep is an incredibly important physiological action that functions as a period of growth, repair, rest, and relaxation for the human body (“Sleep,” 2015). As a population, college students are notorious for their skewed sleep patterns and their overall lack of getting the sufficient number of hours of sleep they need to perform optimally in school. Cramming the night before exams by pulling an “all-nighter” as well as the overall excessive number of distractions that present themselves with college life seem to interfere with students’ sleep. Sleep deprivation appears to be coupled with college students, and research studies have presented statistics that support this generalization. In an article published through the University of Michigan, fifty percent of students said that they were sleepy during the day and seventy percent of students said they did not get an adequate amount of sleep at night (Hershner & Chervin, 2014). Specifically, it appears that nursing students suffer from sleep deprivation, correlated with stressors linked to clinical practice and the rigorous nature of nursing programs (Ticona Benavente, Marques de Silva, Baraldi Higashi, de Azevedo Guido, & Siqueira Costa, 2014). In this paper, I will discuss the causes and effects of sleep deprivation, with a focus on how sleep deprivation relates to nursing students, and then present some nursing interventions that could be utilized for this problem.

There is a certain group of Americans who aren’t getting enough sleep. It's making them sick and it's affecting many aspects of their lives. Who are they? It’s the average American college student. According to the University of Michigan, college students are one of the most sleep-deprived populations (Sleep). Most college students don’t get the recommended amount of sleep; mostly because of the numerous priorities such as turning in papers on time or studying for exams. Sleep is often pushed further down their priority list. Just because we are young college students, doesn’t mean we don’t need sleep. When we go to college our stereotypes come with us, including that college students don’t get enough sleep and all we eat is ramen soup. As students transition to college, they are not typically taught about the side effects of being sleep deprived. Not getting enough sleep affects academic performance, social life, and health. Students should learn the importance of getting sleep and staying healthy because college is important.

Academic stress and parental pressure may not be the only causes of sleep deprivation in college and high school students. According to Lund et al (2010), during puberty, it is normal for students to experience a delay in sleep and wake cycle. Moreover, caffeine consumption and excessive use of electronics at night, further disrupt the sleep cycles of adolescents (p.125).

The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of sleep timing, sleep quality, and sleep duration on academic achievements in young adults. Those who participated in the study were thirty-six Italian seniors in high school. In order to determine their ideal sleep timing, they each filled out the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (MEQ-CA). For two non-consecutive weeks, students underwent actigraphy, which is a non-invasive method of monitoring human rest and activity cycles. This was done in a one month period, and was able to assess factors such as: habitual sleep timing though the midpoint (MS); habitual sleep quality through the parameter of sleep efficiency (SE); and habitual sleep duration through the parameter of total sleep time (TST) (Tonetti, Fabbri, Filardi, Martoni, Natale, 2015). At the end of each actigraphic-recording week, the students completed the Mini Sleep Questionnaire, and their school performance were assessed by the grades achieved after taking final exams.

Gilbert and Weaver (2010) examined the sleep quality with academic performance with university students, whether it is complete sleep deprivation or poor sleep quality. This study was to determine if lack of sleep or having poor sleep value in non-demoralized college students were related to the low academic routine. The author’s expectations were to find the relationship between the student’s environment and lifestyle with their sleep patterns and the force it has on their educational performance. Within the study the authors found that being able to have good sleep patterns and quality is a big key part for student to have a good GPA and

For the Research Review Article, I wanted to understand how sleep deprivation affects undergraduates’ academic performance. My topic question is as follow: What is the underlining cause of sleep deprivation in undergraduate students & how does this phenomenon negatively affects their academic performance? It is well known that poor sleep pattern is a common trend in college students. What I am seeking to fully understand is whether the hours allocated for sleeping is the primary problem, or is