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@#Introduction: Inadequate sleep duration is a modifiable behaviour linked with body weight, yet limited is known on the role of sleep quality with body weight status among university students. The study aimed to determine sleep quality and its association with body weight status among university students. Methods: A crosssectional study was conducted among 240 university students (24.6% males, 75.4% females) with a mean age of 21.22±1.24 years. Subjects were recruited from four faculties of University Putra Malaysia (UPM). Information on socio-demographic, sleep quality and anthropometric measurements were collected. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to assess sleep quality, whereby a summation score from seven components yielded a global score on sleep quality, with higher scores indicating poor sleep quality. Results: Majority of subjects were Malay (79.2%) with a mean body mass index of 22.6kg/m2. A majority (61.3%) had normal body weight, with the prevalences of underweight (UW), overweight (OW), and obesity (OB) at 12.9%, 19.6% and 6.3%, respectively. The mean global PSQI score was 5.76±2.64, with half of the respondents (50.4%) experiencing poor sleep quality. OW-OB experienced poorer sleep quality (6.53±2.79, p=0.004) and longer sleep latency (1.34±0.10, p=0.008) relative to UW-NW. OB subjects had substantially more frequent sleep disturbances compared to non-OB subjects (1.53±0.64, p=0.012). Conclusion: Findings suggest that OW-OB students at university are at a greater risk of having reduced sleep quality with longer sleep latency and frequent sleep disturbances. There is a need for a wellness initiative to reduce the incidence of obesity while fostering healthier sleeping habits among university students.
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Esta pesquisa analisa a ação de estudantes da Escola de Educação Física do Rio Grande do Sul entre os anos de 1957 e 1964. Tal recorte justifica-se por se caracterizar como um período de forte atuação, organização e articulação dos estudantes em termos locais e nacionais. Fundamentada na perspectiva teórico-metodológica da História Cultural foram analisadas fontes tais como atas, reportagens, depoimentos orais, bem como publicações dos estudantes. Como ferramenta metodológica foi utilizada a análise de conteúdo cujos documentos foram analisados em separado e, posteriormente, relacionados entre si. Desse entrecruzamento foram elaboradas unidades de significado que possibilitavam melhor compreender as ações empreendidas pelos estudantes no âmbito interno da ESEF bem como sua articulação com o movimento nacional. Destacamos, assim, a participação política dos estudantes em duas mobilizações que ocorreram no interior da Escola: o movimento reivindicatório de 1958 e o movimento pela sede própria.
This research analyzes student action at the Escola Superior de Educação Física do Rio Grande do Sul , between the years 1957 and 1964. Its focus is justified by the strong mobilization, organization and articulation of students at the national and local level during this period. Based on the theoretical and methodological perspective of Cultural History, we analyze sources such as meeting minutes, reports, oral testimonies and student publications. Our methodological tool is Content Analysis, in which we take an initial separate look at documents and then, at a latter moment, attempt to relate them to one another. From these interconnections we go on to elaborate units of signification which allow a better understanding of student actions within the internal environment of the ESEF, as well as their articulation within a national movement. We give salience to the political participation of students in two mobilizations that took place within the institution: the demand-centered movement of 1958 and the mobilization for a campus of its own.