RESUMEN
Epidemiological and clinical research of sleep in adolescence has been limited but significant. Many studies suggested that sleep abnormalities could lead to depression and anxiety. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of day- time sleepiness and snoring among adolescence of college students at Mansoura University and to estimate the correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and emotional disturbance in the context of presence or absence of snoring. To asses excessive daytime sleepiness, we used Epworth Sleepiness Scale [ESS], for Psychological assessment we used the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire [MHQ], to measure general emotionality e.g. free floating anxiety, phobic anxiety, obsessionality, somatic concomitant of anxiety, depression and hysteria. Both scales had been distributed to random sample of students in three colleges at Mansoura University i.e. college of Medicine, College of arts and college of Culture and education. 144 students [53 males and 91 female] out of 395 students [36.5%] reported excessive daytime sleepiness and 84 [21.3%] of them reported snoring. Excessive daytime sleepiness showed significant correlation with free floating anxiety, phobic anxiety, somatic concomitant of anxiety, depressive traits and low significant correlation with hysterical traits. Excessive daytime sleepiness and snoring appears to have a high prevalence in Egyptian college students. Adolescents identified as having sleep problems show higher rates of behavioral and emotional problems. A wide scale study needed to asses these parameters in the general public