Citation

Prestwich DJ, Rankin LL, Housman J. Calif. J. Health Promot. 2007; 5(2): 148.

Affiliation

Idaho State University

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Department of Health and Community Services, California State University, Chico)

DOI

2007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that additional sleep health education, as well as recording amounts of nightly sleep had on the amounts of sleep and sense of daytime sleepiness, experienced by participants enrolled in a personal health class at a state university in the Pacific Northwest. Participants were divided into four groups, a control, a group that received sleep education only, a group that kept a sleep log only, and a group that received both interventions. Outcomes were assessed with a three day sleep recall, and using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). The students who received both interventions improved their sleep by over 50 minutes per night.