Banca de DEFESA: STEFANIE DA PAZ FIGUEIREDO DE MACEDO

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STUDENT : STEFANIE DA PAZ FIGUEIREDO DE MACEDO
DATE: 30/09/2021
TIME: 14:00
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TITLE:

The relationship between chronotype, social jetlag, quality of sleep, diurnal sleepiness, depression and anxiety in students of health-related undergraduate courses of UFRN

KEY WORDS:

Anxiety, Chronotype, Depression, Social jet lag, Sleep quality, Daytime sleepiness.

PAGES: 84
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUBÁREA: Psicologia Fisiológica
SPECIALTY: Psicobiologia
SUMMARY:

In this project we proposed to understand the prevalence and relationship between sleep quality, chronotype, social jet lag, daytime sleepiness and the indications of depression and anxiety disorders in young university adults.  Our sample is composed of 578 students, of which 372 (64.36%) are women and 206 (35.64%) are men, from health courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, aged between 18 and 32 years. To this end, we applied the following questionnaires: Munich Chronotype Questionnaire (MCTQ), Horne and Östberg's Morningness-Vespertiness Questionnaire (MEQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). In our results we extracted information for calculating social jet lag from the MCTQ, and from the MEQ results we observed that most of our sample is composed of intermediate chronotype individuals. In addition, we demonstrated that most participants suffer from substandard sleep quality and excessive daytime sleepiness; for depression and anxiety the values with the highest frequency indicate minimal presence of symptoms or absence of these disorders in the students. As a result of Spearman correlations we found between Munich- MEQ (rho= 0.595; p<0.001); Munich- Social Jet-lag (rho= 0.543; p<0.001); Social Jet-lag- MEQ (rho= 0.456; p<0.001); PSQI- BDI (rho= 0.303; p<0.001); PSQI- BAI (rho= 0.452; p<0.001); PSQI- ESS (rho= 0.312; p<0.001) and BAI-BDI (rho= 0.356; p<0.001). These results suggest that there is an association between social jet lag and chronotype, with the restriction-expansion effect between classes days and free days being greater in individuals of the evening chronotype. Among the most significant findings we identified a moderate relationship between anxiety and sleep quality.  Furthermore, we identified that there is a relationship between worse sleep quality and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and excessive daytime sleepiness. Finally we identify that depression symptoms are moderately related to anxiety. Thus, we conclude that the high load of classes and studies, as well as the very early class start time among young health college adults, are factors that contribute to increased stress, poorer sleep quality, decreased academic performance, daytime sleepiness, and the emergence of anxiety and depression symptoms, whose women and evening students are the most vulnerable individuals to these disorders. Therefore, this issue deserves more attention from the scientific community and public health agencies so that measures can be adopted in favor of these students.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2998660 - MARIO ANDRE LEOCADIO MIGUEL
Externa ao Programa - 2888478 - DENISE MORAIS LOPES GALENO
Externo à Instituição - LEANDRO LOURENÇÃO DUARTE - UFRB