World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ASSESSMENT OF BODY MASS INDEX AND THE RELATION WITH QUALITY OF SLEEP IN YOUNG ADULTS

Tanya Garg* and Ankita Sharma

ABSTRACT

Introduction: The link between sleep and maintaining health and well-being is increasingly relevant for adolescents and adults. The adverse consequences of insufficient sleep on health have been related to obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and even incident pneumonia. Method: A total of eighty young adults(female: 29 and male: 51) aged eighteen to twenty-five years were assessed. Anthropometric measurements including age, height, weight and indices like height for age, weight for age, and BMI for age were calculated. The sleep quality was assessed through Pittsburgh sleep quality index questionnaire. The Pearson correlation was carried out to find the relation between BMI and sleep quality. Result: The levels of BMI have shown to be more in normal category 30.0% and underweight category 32.5% and the obese class I and class 2 are quite on the lower side. The sleep quality of participants responded shown fairly good quality of sleep which is (63.3) % as follows (20.3) % shows very good percentage whereas, (7.6) % is fairly bad quality of sleep and 8.9% shows very bad sleep quality of a young adults. The pearson correlation between the BMI and sleep quality showed no significant difference in young adults. Conclusion: The result showed that there is no relationship between BMI with sleep quality among adolescents.

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