Abstract

Background: Sleep quality is very important than depression for student`t academic performance. Sleep problems may be four to six times more prevalent than depression in the college student population.

Objectives: To examine the relationship between sleep deprivation, sleep quality, and academic performance among college students in Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.

Subjects and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among Qassim university students in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (males and females) in the following colleges; medicine, pharmacy, computer science, preparatory year, and business managing. Data were collected through a questionnaire that contained questions regarding sleep deprivation, sleep quality, and academic performance among students.

Results: The study included 250 students, equally distributed between colleges and gender. It is obvious that 59.7% of those satisfied with sleep had >7 hours of sleeping and 35.1% of those dissatisfied with sleep had <4 hours duration of sleep, p<0.001. There was a statistically significant association between attending all classes and duration of sleeping, p=0.009. More than half of them (55.5%) sleep on the average.

Keywords: Sleep; Disturbance; University; Students