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The role played by gender and age on poor sleep quality among institutionalized adolescents

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Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence and association between sleep quality with gender and age and to examine the relation between age and the components of the PSQI in institutionalized adolescents.

Methods

High school internal students of both genders, aged between 14 and 19 years old, were analyzed. After a full clinical evaluation, the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index Score was obtained from all participants.

Results

We studied 210 participants [male: 15. 7 ± 1.2 years; BMI: 21.7 ± 2.6 kg/m2; female: 15.7 ± 1. 2 years; BMI: 21.9 ± 4.5 kg/m2]. Poor sleep quality was present in 137 (65.3%) participants and was predominant among girls than boys (PSQI = 76.3 vs 55.8%; p < 0.001), respectively. There were positive correlations between PSQI components with age in boys (sleep latency: R = 0.23; p = 0.02; sleep duration: R = 0.28; p < 0.01 and overall sleep quality: R = 0.21; p = 0.03), but not among girls.

Conclusion

Institutionalized girls have worse sleep quality than boys and positive correlations between sleep quality components with age were only present among boys.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level (or Education) Personnel (CAPES). We thank all adolescents and their families for participating in this study.

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  1. Program in Adolescent Health, University of Pernambuco (UPE), Recife, PE, Brazil

    Ladyodeyse da Cunha Silva Santiago, Maria Julia Lyra, Rodrigo Cappato de Araújo & Marcos André Moura dos Santos

  2. Associate Graduate Program in Physical Education, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Rafael Marinho Falcão Batista, Breno Quintella Farah, Rodrigo Cappato de Araújo & Marcos André Moura dos Santos

  3. Group Research in Health and Sport, ASCES College, Caruaru, Brazil

    Breno Quintella Farah

  4. Sleep and Heart Laboratory, Pronto Socorro Cardiologic de Pernambuco (PROCAPE), University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Rodrigo Pinto Pedrosa

  5. Hospital Metropolitano Sul Dom Helder Câmara IMIP Hospitalar, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil

    Rodrigo Pinto Pedrosa

  6. Group Research in Education, Health and Environment, Vitoria de Santo Antao (IFPE), Recife, PE, Brazil

    Ana Patrícia Siqueira Tavares Falcão

  7. Physical Education School, University of Pernambuco, Arnóbio Marques street, 310. Santo Amaro, Recife, PE, 50100-130, Brazil

    Marcos André Moura dos Santos

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da Cunha Silva Santiago, L., Batista, R.M.F., Lyra, M.J. et al. The role played by gender and age on poor sleep quality among institutionalized adolescents. Sleep Breath 21, 197–202 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-017-1463-z

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