British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, ISSN: 2278-0998,Vol.: 16, Issue.: 2

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Caffeine, Sleep Duration and Adolescents’ Perception of Health Related Quality of Life

 

Margarida Gaspar de Matos^1,2,3*, Teresa Paiva^3,4, David Costa², Tânia Gaspar^1,2 and Diana Galvão²

¹FMH, University of Lisbon, Aventura Social Research Team, Lisbon, Portugal.

²WJCR/ISPA, Lisbon, Portugal.

³ISAMB-FMUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

⁴CENC – Sleep Medicine Center, Lisbon, Portugal.

Article Information
Editor(s):
(1) Atika Khalaf, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Sweden.
Reviewers:
(1) Avinash De Sousa, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, India.
(2) Nafis Faizi, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India.
(3) Anonymous, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Japan.
(4) S. S. Deshpande, SKN Medical College, Pune, India.
(5) Jerzy Beltowski, Medical University, Lublin, Poland.
(6) Paulo dos Santos Duarte Vitória, Beira Interior University, Portugal.
(7) Liping Li, Shantou University Medical College, China.
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Introduction: The main objective of this study was to understand the impact of caffeine on adolescents’ health and health related behaviours, namely sleep duration and health related quality of life.

Methods: Students in the 6^th, 8^th and 10^th grades were chosen randomly from clusters of schools for this study. A questionnaire designed to measure caffeine consumption, sleep quantity and quality and health related quality of life was used.

ANOVAs were used for gender and grade and three multilinear regression models were conducted

Results: Coffee and soft drinks with caffeine have a negative impact in sleep duration. Both sleep duration and quality have a positive effect on health related quality of life. Although the use of energetic drinks with alcohol is low, it has a negative impact on the perception of health quality of life. Males have shown a better perception of health related quality of life and greater quantity and quality of sleep while females report more difficulties falling asleep and report more fatigue.

Conclusions: Caffeine intake has a negative impact on sleep duration and perception of health related quality of life, although accounting for a relatively low variance.

Keywords :

Adolescence; caffeine; quality of life perception; sleep duration; caffeine; sleep duration and adolescents’ perception of health related quality of life.

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DOI : 10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23894

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