MTSU has Starbucks right in the library where students go to study this is an addiction waiting to happen. According to Hershner and Chervin, “caffeine also may act on gamma-aminobutyric acid neurons of the posterior hypothalamus to suppress sleep promoting pathways.23 The net effect is that caffeine increases vigilance, alertness, and decreases sleepiness” (Hershner and Chervin 2014). This explains that caffeine interrupts your brain in ways to suppress your sleep allowing you not to get sleepy earlier. Also, energy drinks fall into this category even Starbucks makes energy drinks now. Furthermore, Hershner and Chervin state that “the majority (67%) of users consumed energy drinks to help compensate for insufficient sleep” (Hershner and Chervin 2014). Most people drink energy drinks to stay awake and the majority of the time it is more than one energy drink a day. Overall the university is only promoting the bad decisions of students by having unhealthy places on campus to eat and drink.
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The predisposing factors can be as simple as no knowledge of the connection sleep health has to mental health, might not fully understand the impact of lack of sleep can have and what is abnormal sleep and normal, most students feel like it is hard to change sleeping habits. This factor only worsens your sleeping habits as a whole and leave students not knowing that their sleep is an issue. In high school, the schools really encourage students before any big test the need rest. On the other hand, at a university, it is up to the person on what bedtime is good for them and what is not. In college, more students are staying up late studying than going to sleep. When they wake up in the morning to take the test, their mind cannot even focus all the way because of the lack of sleep the night before. If a student has a night job or just use
The Educational & Ecological Assessment: …show more content…
The predisposing factors can be as simple as no knowledge of the connection sleep health has to mental health, might not fully understand the impact of lack of sleep can have and what is abnormal sleep and normal, most students feel like it is hard to change sleeping habits. This factor only worsens your sleeping habits as a whole and leave students not knowing that their sleep is an issue. In high school, the schools really encourage students before any big test the need rest. On the other hand, at a university, it is up to the person on what bedtime is good for them and what is not. In college, more students are staying up late studying than going to sleep. When they wake up in the morning to take the test, their mind cannot even focus all the way because of the lack of sleep the night before. If a student has a night job or just use