Sleep Quality of Physiotherapy Students Quality of Life and Physical Activity Level

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Completed

• Conditions: Sleep Quality; Physical Activity; Quality of Life
• Interventions: Behavioral: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); Behavioral: International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ); Behavioral: The Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36)

• Registration Number: NCT03813420
• Lead Sponsor: Istinye University

Brief Summary

There is a high prevalence of poor sleep quality among university students studying in different areas such as medicine, nursing, art, science, social work etc. and in different countries. However, the studies done especially for physiotherapy students, and in Turkey, as well, are not many. Therefore, we aimed to search the sleep quality among physiotherapy students, and observe the association between the health related quality of life and physical activity level of the physiotherapy students.

The physiotherapy students were included. Their quality of sleep will be assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The physical activity will be searched by International Physical Activity Questionnaire, and SF-36 will be used to assess quality of life. Data is going to analyzed statistically

Detailed Description

Therefore, recent studies are focusing on the sleep quality of university students in different countries, and reporting that medical students pharmacy students, nursing students are experiencing poor quality of sleep. However, to our knowledge, studies done on sleep quality of students and especially the physiotherapy students are not available in Turkey, yet.

Hence, since the university students are one of the high risk groups for developing poor sleep quality, we aimed to evaluate if the sleep quality of the physiotherapy students in both gender are associated with their quality of life and physical activity level.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-09-03
• Study First Submitted: 2018-12-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-01-18
• Study First Posted: 2019-01-23
• Primary Completion: 2021-07-01
• Study Completion: 2021-09-15
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-13
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• Being physiotherapy and rehabilitation students
• Being the age between 18-26 years old
• Being voluntary to participate to the study

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Exclusion Criteria

• Not having any systemic disease
• Any expressed psychological condition

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Physiotherapy students	Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)	1. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-PSQI:The sleep quality was evaluated through the Turkish version of the PSQI containing 19 self-rated questions searching the sleep quality during the previous month 2. International Physical Activity Questionnaire-IPAQ: The physical activity of the participants was assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form (IPAQ-SF), which includes 6 questions searching the frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, as well as the intensity of physical activity in the last seven days. 3. Short Form-36-SF-36: The Turkish version of SF-36 was used to understand the health related quality-of -life (HRQOL) of the participants over the past four weeks in eight health concepts.
Physiotherapy students	International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)	1. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-PSQI:The sleep quality was evaluated through the Turkish version of the PSQI containing 19 self-rated questions searching the sleep quality during the previous month 2. International Physical Activity Questionnaire-IPAQ: The physical activity of the participants was assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form (IPAQ-SF), which includes 6 questions searching the frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, as well as the intensity of physical activity in the last seven days. 3. Short Form-36-SF-36: The Turkish version of SF-36 was used to understand the health related quality-of -life (HRQOL) of the participants over the past four weeks in eight health concepts.
Physiotherapy students	The Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36)	1. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index-PSQI:The sleep quality was evaluated through the Turkish version of the PSQI containing 19 self-rated questions searching the sleep quality during the previous month 2. International Physical Activity Questionnaire-IPAQ: The physical activity of the participants was assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form (IPAQ-SF), which includes 6 questions searching the frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, as well as the intensity of physical activity in the last seven days. 3. Short Form-36-SF-36: The Turkish version of SF-36 was used to understand the health related quality-of -life (HRQOL) of the participants over the past four weeks in eight health concepts.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sleep Quality	3 months	The sleep quality of the students will be evaluated by means of the Turkish version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index through face-to-face interview. This assessment will provide us information about the type and duration of their sleep as well as their sleep efficiency, if there are any sleep disturbances or if they are using any sleep medications or not. Additionally, this will provide us about if the sleep quality affects their daytime functions.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Physical activity	3 months	The physical activity of the participants will assessed through the Turkish version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire -Short Form. The frequency (days per week) and duration (hours) of walking, the intensity of their physical activity as if they are low, moderately and vigorously physical active or not will be searched. This covers the duration of the last seven days prior to survey.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istinye University; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey