Abstract:

One of the most common sleep disorders is insomnia difficulty in falling asleep, maintaining sleep or state of waking up earlier than required. It is characterized by short, poor, shallow, easily divisible or non-restful sleep. This study was conducted to investigate the frequency of insomnia on young people and the potential factors which may effect. The study which was conducted in descriptive design was carried out with 374 nursing students in Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University during the February 20 to May 30, 2015 period. Before the procedure, ethical permisions were provided and students responded voluntarily. The data were obtained through Descriptive Characteristics Form and Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale (PIRS) adopted by Aydın et al. (2014) the Turkish. 0 points can be taken from the lowest scale, and the highest score being 60; 30 points and above is considered to be suspicion of insomnia. It was found out that the mean value of the participant students’ ages was 20.99±2.06 and PIRS mean value was16.20±11.79. It was also found out that 32.6% of the participants were male, 23% slept less then 6 hours a day, 12.6% had a disease diagnosed by physicians, 23.7% were smokers and tea/coffee consumption of 13.9% was determined to be at a high level. Average PIRS score of the students who sleep less than six hours, who smoke, whose tea/coffee consumption is high, who has a disease diagnosed by physicians was determined to be statistically significantly higher (p<0.05). As a result, high rates (38.23%) of insomnia suspicion were noted among young people who participated in the survey.In particular, sleep hygiene education and the treatment of cognitive behavioral therapy is considered to be effective in the prevention and treatment of the sleep problems of  young people who are at risk. 

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