Engineering students are mostly heard telling that they study the whole night before the exam and the one night study seems good for their preparation. This has been seen as a common idea for most of the students.
While, the trend has been seen as a common note in engineering students, the students in other streams of higher education are too affected by poor quality of sleep.
The issue comes to the light owing to the research performed by American Academy of Sleep Medicine that states, “adequate sleep is essential to feeling awake and alert, maintaining good health and working at peak performance.” They add, “After two weeks of sleeping six hours or less a night, students feel as bad and perform as poorly as someone who has gone without sleep for 48 hours.”
The college fraternity needs to take the statistics seriously and start working on a healthy sleeping habits such as getting early to the bed, following a sleep pattern, not using gadgets on bed and eating little before the sleeping time and so on.
The other outcomes of the research are as follows:
- Students sleeping less are more likely to receive poor grades in classes such as math, reading and writing than peers without symptoms of sleep disorders.
- College students with insomnia have significantly more mental health problems than college students without insomnia.
- College students with medical-related majors are more likely to have poorer quality of sleep in comparison to those with a humanities major.
- College students who pull “all-nighters” are more likely to have a lower GPA.
- Students who stay up late on school nights and make up for it by sleeping late on weekends are more likely to perform poorly in the classroom. This is because, on weekends, they are waking up at a time that is later than their internal body clock expects. The fact that their clock must get used to a new routine may affect their ability to be awake early for school at the beginning of the week when they revert back to their new routine.