title: Mediator Effect of Sleep Hygiene Practices on Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Other Sleep-Related Factors in Chinese Mainland University Students.
abstract: This study examined the mediator effect of sleep hygiene practices (SHP) on relationships between sleep quality and other sleep-related factors in Chinese mainland university students using structural equation modeling analysis. Of the 413 students, 41.4% had poor sleep quality. Gender, academic stress, relaxed psychological status, good physical status, and SHP had significant direct effects on sleep quality; relaxed psychological status had significant direct effect on SHP and indirect effect on sleep quality via SHP. The direct, indirect, and total effects of gender, academic stress, relaxed psychological status, good physical status, and SHP explained 25% of the variance in sleep quality. The Chinese mainland university students had relative poor sleep quality. SHP was a mediator between sleep quality and relaxed psychological status.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Nursing Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: a Department of Nursing Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center.
authors.forename: Kaina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: a Department of Nursing Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center.
authors.forename: Xiaomei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: b Department of Nursing , First Affiliated Hospital Xi'an Jiaotong University.
authors.forename: Miao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: c Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics , School of Public Health Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center.
authors.forename: Shaonong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dang
authors.affiliation: d Department of Medical Statistics , Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
authors.forename: Duolao
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: b Department of Nursing , First Affiliated Hospital Xi'an Jiaotong University.
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012737:Sex Factors; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D056508:Sleep Medicine Specialty / Q000379:methods*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult