The quality of sleep and factors associated with poor sleep in Japanese graduate students

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 234-238

  Pallos, Henrik ^a   Gergely, Viktor ^a   Yamada, Naoto ^a   Miyazaki, Soichiro ^a   Okawa, Masako ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graduate students; Japan; PSQI; Quality of sleep; Sleep hygiene

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COFFEE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTORAL EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LEISURE; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MASTERS EDUCATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTAL MAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRAVEL; UNIVERSITY; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 34648819549     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2007.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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