Sleep health and academic outcomes in college students

Sleep health and academic outcomes in college students. College students are one of the most chronically sleep deprived groups, with 60% falling in the clinically poor sleep category. We would be interested in addressing the direct outcomes of poor sleep in college students’ various roles on campus (as an academic, an athlete, student worker, etc.). We would also be interested in empowering college students in a variety of ways that they can control their sleep outcomes. We would be using wrist-based sleep tracking technology in addition to standard sleep surveys, mood inventories, and other in-house developed surveys to measure sleep and academic/health outcomes. We will be using the method of implementation intention, as typically just educating people about the importance of sleep doesn’t change behavior, but imagining and intending to do something can change behavior slowly over time. Student researchers will be involved in IRB documentation development, recruiting and running participants, analyzing and interpreting the data, and presenting our findings at local and regional conferences. If there is interest, we would prepare and submit a manuscript to further disseminate our findings.

Focus Areas

psychology/neuroscience

Project Duration

8 weeks (05/18/26-07/10/26)

Prerequisite Courses

PSYC 100, BIOL 110, COGS 101, PSYC 230 or PSYC 285 (Advanced topics in sleep)

Preferred Courses

(N/A)

Number of Positions

2

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