Relação das características do sono no desempenho acadêmico

Abstract

Sleep is a feature common to all living organisms that have a nervous system. The relation of sleep to cognitive processes is known, from its importance in preparing for learning as its active role in memory consolidation. It is known that college students are in transition from adolescence to adulthood. Consequently, they experience alterations in the organization of their sleep and wake routine, and may present deficient sleep patterns. This work aimed to analyze and describe the sleep characteristics of university students in the night shift of the Federal University of the Frontier South-Campus Realeza and its relation with academic performance. This analysis was based on the application of specific questionnaires for the evaluation of chronotype, sleep and drowsiness, and the evaluation of academic performance by obtaining the general average of scores obtained during the same period of sleep evaluation. From the data collected, correlation analyzes and comparison of means were performed. The results showed that most of the students presented poor sleep quality and excessive daytime sleepiness, however, these factors as well as the chronotype did not show direct interference in the academic performance obtained.