A Descriptive Study on the Sleeping Habits of Senior High School Students of St. Mary’s College Quezon City in S.Y. 2018-2019

Authors

  • Raphael L. Arroyo
  • Eddieber R. Depana
  • Eron Joshua B. Gatdula
  • Christian Neil T. Requejo

Keywords:

sleeping habits, SHS, SMCQC

Abstract

Sleep is a physiological process essential to life. However, many people work to the bone to earn a decent amount of money or even accomplish an assigned task. Based on National Geographic’s magazine issue featuring sleep, many people have trouble sleeping, because “more than 80 million American adults are chronically sleep-deprived,” and not everyone has the same sleeping habits. According to Andrade M, Menna, and Baretto L. from Cambridge University, sleep problems are common among young teens or adolescents. These problems could be caused by unhealthy sleeping habits or perhaps a mental condition. For this study, quantitative research is used. The research design is a descriptive study, for it only aims to describe the sleeping habits of senior high school students of SMCQC 2018-2019. The study is conducted in St. Mary’s College Quezon City, a co-ed Catholic school, within the month of September. The test contained questions regarding the average amount of sleep they get, the times of sleeping and waking, factors that prevent them from sleeping, and the strategies they use to wake up on time. Of the 190 respondents, ninety percent (90%) belong to the 16 to 17-year-old category. Study shows that seventy percent (70%) of the respondents get 4-6 hours of sleep. In general, most students get three or more hours of sleep on a night without school the next day. Only 4% of the population get one to three hours of sleep. Most students start sleeping from 10 pm to 1 am. Only 1% of the students start sleeping before 7 pm. Most of the students start sleeping at midnight or later on non-school nights. Only 2% of the senior high students have said they start sleeping around 5 to 9 pm. Most of the senior high students usually get up from 4 am to 6 am on a school day. Only 13% of the students get up at 6 am or later. Majority of the students wake up at 6 am or later, while only 8% of the students wake up at times earlier than 6 am on a non-school day. The most probable cause behind sleeping difficulties is device use, as it has been chosen the most in the questionnaire by 74 respondents, followed by insomnia (32 respondents). Alarm clocks are the most used method of getting up, followed by people in the students’ household waking them. Because of many different factors, adolescents don’t get the right amount of sleep they need. This could be interpreted as a sign of unhealthy sleeping habits. Teachers and parents should guide the SHS students in creating a healthy sleeping habit. Students should be able to discover the strategies, improve their sleeping habits, and improve their time management.

Published

2019-03-18