Sleep quality of adolescents during the covid-19 pandemic and associated factors
International Journal of Development Research
Sleep quality of adolescents during the covid-19 pandemic and associated factors
Received 17th September, 2022; Received in revised form 26th September, 2022; Accepted 27th October, 2022; Published online 30th November, 2022
Copyright©2022, Alenice Aliane Fonseca et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study sought to evaluate the quality of sleep of adolescents during social isolation by pandemic COVID-19 and associated factors. This is a cross-sectional study, carried out with 287 adolescents. Self-rated sleep quality was analyzed according to sociodemographic profile, nutritional status, self-perception of health and body image, physical activity, time in front of the television, and food intake. Prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were estimated using multiple Poisson regression models with robust variance. The prevalence of adolescents with self-reported poor sleep was 33.5%. It was observed that female adolescents (PR=1.14; 95%CI: 1.05-1.23), with a negative perception of their health (PR=1.19; 95%CI: 1.10-1.30) and insufficiently active (PR=1.08; 95%CI: 1.00-1.17) were associated with poor sleep quality. The results indicate a high prevalence of adolescents who self-rated their quality of sleep as poor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep quality was influenced by biological factors (such as gender) and behavioral factors (such as physical inactivity, and negative health perception).
