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Acta de investigación psicológica
versión On-line ISSN 2007-4719versión impresa ISSN 2007-4832
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ZEGARRA LOPEZ, Ángel Christopher; DELGADO TENORIO, Ariana Lucía; VILLA ALVARADO, Ana Beatriz y CERNADES AMES, Adriana Paola. Sleep and Mental Health in Peruvian Undergraduates during the COVID19 Pandemic. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.3, pp.28-39. Epub 03-Dic-2024. ISSN 2007-4719. https://doi.org/10.22201/fpsi.20074719e.2023.3.509.
Sleep duration and disruption have a strong impact on mental health, specifically in undergraduate students whose academic demands tend to make it difficult to maintain regular sleep patterns. In addition, COVID-19 brought unprecedented changes that exacerbated the burden faced by undergraduate students. For this reason, the present study aims to analyze the predictive role of sleep duration and disruption with respect to depression, anxiety, and stress, three mental health conditions with high prevalence reported in studies during the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in undergraduate students. A total of 3442 undergraduate students (32.51% men, 67.49% women) from Lima, Peru voluntarily participated in the study. Sleep duration was operationalized as daily hours of sleep; while sleep disruption was an indicator of the unfrequent or regular difficulties falling or staying asleep. Mental health conditions depression, anxiety, and stress were measured using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Resilience and perceived social support were added as control variables, measured by the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), along with other demographic indicators for their respective statistical control. The data analyzes were carried out under the Factor Score Regression approach, where a series of factor scores are estimated from Confirmatory Factor Analysis on the independent measurement models for each latent variable and said estimates are used in regression models. later. After controlling for the effect of psychological and demographic variables, both sleep duration and sleep disruption were statistically significant predictors for depression, anxiety, and stress; however, sleep duration had a negligible effect size, while sleep disruption had a strong effect size with respect to the three mental health conditions. It is concluded that the difficulties in falling or staying asleep as a result of the high academic demands and exacerbated by the context of the COVID-19 pandemic had a strong influence on the symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress experienced by undergraduate students of Lima Peru.
Palabras llave : Sleep; Depression; Anxiety; Stress; COVID19.