Synthesis Essay-Lack Of Sleep Among College Students

Imagine driving on a rural road sleepy. Your eyes are feeling heavy, the road feels endless, but you insist on driving believing that you can handle it. While driving, your mind is no longer focused on the road and next thing you know you slowly lose control of the wheel. This analogy is exactly what students at the University of Alberta are experiencing. Rather than a driver it is a student, and instead of an endless road it is replaced with the university itself. “Sleep? Maybe later” by Cary A. Brown, Pei Qin, and Shaniff Esmail, analysis and explain the results of a sleep study involving students who attend the University of Alberta. This article discusses a variety of sleep related issues such as, the effect sleep has towards undergraduate and graduate students’ performance, reasons for students’ lack of sleep, and strategies to help students gain the recommended amount of sleep as well as ways to access information that will help combat their sleeping problems. …show more content…
According to the article, out of the total amount of people who participated in the survey, thirty-point five percent claimed to have less than six point five hours of sleep and those that did were mainly undergraduate students (Brown, et al, 2017, p. 1). In addition, while sixty-six-point five percent of the students surveyed claimed they had insufficient sleep, eighty percent did not seek help (Brown, et al, 2017, p. 1). This is problematic for these university students because not having adequate amount of sleep and professional help can have a negative effect on their physical and mental health as well as affect their academic performance (Brown, et al,