Relación entre calidad de sueño y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de ingeniería civil de la Universidad Santo Tomas, sede Villavicencio

Abstract

The studies consulted at international and national level, let us know that university students tend to have difficulties in their quality of sleep, due to the different daily activities that they must do or reach, which generates a possible impact at the cognitive level. The objective of this research is to know the relationship between the quality of sleep and the academic performance of students between 18 and 32 years old from the second to the eighth semester of civil engineering program at Santo Tomas University in Villavicencio city. The instruments applied during the intervention were the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and to know the academic performance of the population, the final score of the first term was taken into account as an instrument. In this way, the results found through the ICSP, 72.6% of the students participating in the research, have a non-optimal quality of sleep; 68.1% of the population have somnolence difficulties; about the score, the lowest one was 1.9 and the highest one was 4.3 with an average of 3.39. Finally, there was a correlation between sleep quality and negative academic performance, since the higher the score in the ICSP (nonoptimal sleep), the lower the scores obtained by the students. Otherwise, a positive type correlation was found between sleep quality and the sleepiness scale, the higher the score in the ICSP (non-optimal sleep), the greater the score on the sleepiness scale (some level of sleepiness).