Sleep in the conditions of noise pollution of student youth (based on the results of a sociological study)
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https://doi.org/10.32782/2077-6594/2025.1/01Keywords:
student youth, quality of sleep, noise, sociological researchAbstract
Purpose. To study the impact of noise pollution on the quality of sleep of students and to assess the prevalence of sleep disorders in this population group due to external noise irritants in a region remote from the territories of active combat lines. Materials and methods. A special sociological study was conducted using an original questionnaire in the format of a Google form. The target group of the study is students of the State Higher Educational Institution “Uzhhorod National University”. The following methods were used in the study: bibliosemantic, content analysis and sociological. The methodological basis of the study was a systematic approach. Results. In general, respondents living far from the territories of active hostilities have sufficient or close to sufficient daily sleep – 59.7 % of respondents sleep 6–8 hours a day, 35.7 % sleep 4–6 hours a day. The vast majority of respondents (81.4 %) report a high level of satisfaction with their sleep. The majority of respondents do not feel that noise interferes with their sleep (45.7 % of respondents), with the situation being identical among women and men (45.9 % of female and 45.2 % of male respondents); a significant proportion (36.4 %) of surveyed students of both sexes indicate that external noise rarely affects their sleep. There are grounds to suggest that the impact of noise pollution on the quality of sleep of students may have peculiarities depending on age and gender. Conclusions. In general, the assumption that noise pollution (alarms, sirens, etc.) significantly affects the quality of sleep of students living in a region far from the territory of active hostilities has not been confirmed. At the same time, there is a need for a detailed study of the peculiarities of noise pollution, its nature and type on the quality of sleep of student youth, depending on a number of other modifiable and sustainable factors of pollution influence.
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