We should make a good environment around us while going to sleep to have a comfortable and a better sleep. Sleep hygiene is the behavioral and environmental practice that is intended to promote better quality sleep (Voinescu et al., 2015)
Making a good sleeping environment that is quiet, dark, and is recommended. The sounds around you, if there is a source of light in your room, and the bad temperatures will make you wake up while sleeping and this disrupt your continuous sleep
Sleep quality represents like so how complicated facts. The elements that incorporate sleep quality vary from one person to another and so does their corresponding importance making it a highly subjective thing. So some aspects of sleep quality can be …show more content…
Students are opprobrious for inadequate and low quality sleep and for irregular sleep habits, such as sleeping less during the week and longer during the weekends.
Concerning diurnal preference, the evening types reported lower sleep quality and sleep acquaintance. Age has a fecund repercussion on morningness-eveningness, too, in the sense that morningness increases with age. Older people gravitate to go to and out of bed earlier than younger adults and have more commotion than younger adults adapting to night shift work and jetlag.
Voinescu et al., 2015 designed a study to measure the sleep hygiene awareness and the self-reported quality of sleep among three age groups (young adults, adults, and middle-aged adults) and their kinship with the diurnal preference.
Voinescu et al., 2015 found that those with worse sleep hygiene awareness reported significantly better sleep, while those with better awareness, poorer sleep.
Better sleep hygiene awareness does not necessarily approve better sleep quality; on the contrary, sleep quality was higher among those with lower sleep hygiene …show more content…
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