Abstract

Background: Sleep deprivation is common in different age groups and especially collegestudents, however has not been explored happens in nutrition students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with quality of sleep in students of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University San Sebastián.Methods: We evaluated 633 students of Nutrition and Dietetics at the four campus (86.5% women) who were applied an anthropometric assessment and surveys sleep: Epworth sleepiness scale, Insomnia and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).Results: The 54.9% sleep less than recommended, 43.4% have mild drowsiness, 11.2% severe somnolence, 88.0% presented insomnia and 76.8% poor quality of sleep. Be a freshman was associated as a risk factor for having a poor quality of sleep (OR=2.345, 95%CI 1.154-4.764), however have breakfast (OR=0.490, 95%CI 0.279-0.819), not be sleepy day (OR=0.365, 95%CI 0.213-0.628), not having insomnia (OR=0.271, 95%CI 0.145-0.506) and adequate sleep (OR = 0.227, 95% from 0.136 to 0.381) were protective factors.Conclusions: The poor quality of sleep, insomnia and daytime sleepiness is observed high, making it necessary interventions in college students to reverse this problem