The Survey of the Relationship Between Moderate-Intensity Sport Activities and the Level of Sleep Subjective Quality in Non-Athlete Male Students Using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

Abstract

The sleep quality and quantity are directly and indirectly related to human health and sleep disorders can lead to a lot of harm to students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to survey the relationship between moderate-intensity sport activities and the level of sleep subjective quality in non-athlete male students using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). This study was a semi empirical study and 20 non-athlete male students were randomly selected using PSQI. The PSQI questionnaire was used to measure subjects’ sleep subjective quality and a standard training protocol. The collected data was analyzed by ShapiroWilk test, dependent t-test, and Wilcoxon test. The SPSS software (version 23) was used for data analysis. The results showed that the score of students’ subjective sleep quality was 9.2 in the experimental group and was 7.3 in the control group and it was 7.4 in the post-test. It shows that students’ sleep quality improved significantly with the implementation of protocol (P<0.05). It is suggested that sports activities can be effective on the improvement of students’ sleep quality and it is an applied mechanism to improve health indicators. DOI: 10.29011/2576-9596.100036