A Mindfulness Program Addressing Sleep Quality and Stress: Transition to a Telehealth Format for Higher Education Students During COVID-19.

IF 2.5 Q1 REHABILITATION
International Journal of Telerehabilitation Pub Date : 2022-06-03 eCollection Date: 2022-01-01 DOI:10.5195/ijt.2022.6439
Sara Benham, Nabila Enam, Samanvita Ivaturi
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Abstract

Many higher education students report sleep problems, further exemplified along with stress at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Promising evidence supports the use of mindfulness programming, although synchronous telehealth sessions have not been adequately examined. This exploratory eight-session telehealth mindfulness program utilized a pretest-posttest quantitative design to examine changes in sleep quality and perceived stress for 16 higher education students enrolled at a health professions-focused university. Sleep quality changes were measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Z=-3.234, p=0.0012, d=-0.808) and perceived stress with the Perceived Stress Scale (Z=-3.102, p=0.0019, d=-0.776), both of which were significant. The results suggest that synchronous mindfulness programming delivered via telehealth has the potential to improve sleep quality and perceived stress in students, however, future studies should consider the use of objective measurements of sleep duration and quality, and a control group.

解决睡眠质量和压力的正念计划:在COVID-19期间过渡到高等教育学生的远程医疗格式。
许多高等教育学生报告睡眠问题,这在新冠疫情爆发时的压力进一步体现出来。有希望的证据支持正念方案的使用,尽管同步远程保健会议尚未得到充分审查。这个探索性的八期远程医疗正念计划利用前测后测定量设计来检查16名就读于一所卫生专业大学的高等教育学生的睡眠质量和感知压力的变化。采用匹兹堡睡眠质量指数(Z=-3.234, p=0.0012, d=-0.808)和感知压力量表(Z=-3.102, p=0.0019, d=-0.776)测量睡眠质量变化,两者均具有显著性。结果表明,通过远程医疗提供的同步正念编程有可能改善学生的睡眠质量和感知压力,然而,未来的研究应考虑使用客观的睡眠持续时间和质量测量,并建立一个对照组。
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