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Journal Article Ppublish

PubMed: 41390183 DOI: 10.1016/j.rcpeng.2025.11.010

Sleep Quality and Mental Health in Students at a Jungle University in Peru: A Cross-sectional Study During COVID-19 Pandemic Confinement.

Rev Colomb Psiquiatr (Engl Ed) 54(4):581-590

Authors: Valentina Murrieta-Ruiz, Martin E Reátegui-Garcia, Abraham De-Los-Rios-Pinto, Jefferson Reategui-Garcia, Raysa M Benito-Vargas, Brenda Caira-Chuquineyra, Daniel Fernandez-Guzman, Alberto Salazar Granara

Affiliations

  • Escuela Profesional de Medicina Humana Rafael Donayre Rojas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru; Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina de la Amazonía Peruana (SOCIEMAP), Loreto, Peru.
  • Escuela Profesional de Medicina Humana Rafael Donayre Rojas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru.
  • Escuela Profesional de Medicina Humana, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.
  • Grupo Peruano de Investigación Epidemiológica, Unidad para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Peru.
  • Escuela Profesional de Medicina Humana, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru; Grupo Peruano de Investigación Epidemiológica, Unidad para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru.
  • Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Facultad de Medicina Humana, Centro de Investigación de Medicina Tradicional y Farmacología, Lima, Peru; Sociedad Peruana de Farmacología y Terapéutica Experimental (SOPFARTEX). Lima, Peru; Colegio Médico del Perú, Comité de Medicina Tradicional, Alternativa y Complementaria, Lima, Peru.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

The objective was to evaluate the association between sleep quality and mental health in students at a jungle university in Peru.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on university students ≥18 years old during September and November 2020. Mental health status was measured with General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), and sleep quality with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The association was assessed using linear regression models, and crude (β c) and adjusted (β a) beta regression coefficients with their respective 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were estimated.

RESULTS

Two hundred and seventy-nine students were evaluated, 35.1% were 20-21 years old and 56.6% were male. The mean PSQI was 7.9±3.2, and 75.3% presented sleep problems. The mean GHQ-12 was 14.0±6.6, and 57.7% showed suspected psychopathology. The total sleep quality score (β a=0.36; 95% CI: 0.11-0.61; p=0.005), as well as, higher component scores, subjective sleep quality (β a=1.57; 95% CI: 0.28-2.87; p=0.018), sleep duration (β a=1.25; 95% CI: 0.35-2.16; p=0.007), hypnotic medication use (β a=1.79; 95% CI: 0.43-3.15; p=0.010), and daytime dysfunction (β a=1.15; 95% CI: 0.10-2.19; p=0.032), were associated with worse mental health status score.

CONCLUSION

After 6 months of initiation of COVID-19 confinement, the frequency of sleep disturbance and mental health were elevated. Sleep quality disturbance was associated with worse mental health status.

MeSH

Cross-Sectional Studies, Sleep, Health Status, Covid-19, Pandemics, Mental Health, Universities, Forests