Background: The main purpose of the present study was to explore significant associations between sleep duration and sleep quality with poor self-rated health.
Methods: Subjects were 2100 university students (49.6% of women), aged 18-24 years. The associations between sleep duration and sleep quality with self-rated health were examined by using structured questionnaires.
Results: After adjusting for sex, body mass index (BMI), socio-economic status, smoking status, alcohol consumption, presence or absence of chronic diseases, psychological distress and physical activity, very short [<6 h, odds ratio (OR) = 4.78; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.95-11.76] and very long (>10 h, OR = 4.09; 95% CI 2.26-7.39) sleep duration and poor sleep quality (OR = 1.44; 95% CI 1.01-2.05) were associated with poor self-rated health.
Conclusions: Our results show both dependent and independent associations between sleep duration and sleep quality with self-rated health in a large sample of young adults. Thus, policies that promote adequate sleep duration and good sleep quality are warranted.
Keywords: health; logistic regression; sleeping habits; youth.
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