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. 2021 Mar 10;18(6):2804. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18062804

Table 2.

Differences for the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index items according to age grouping when the chi-square test was applied.

Age Pittsburgh Sleep Quaility Index Item Chi-Square
(n, p-Value)
Sleep Latency
5–15 min 16–30 min 31–60 min >60 min n = 1157
p < 0.001
18–40 7.2% 24.7% 34.1% 34.1%
>40 16.7% 35.6% 25.2% 22.5%
Sample % 10.8% 28.9% 30.7% 29.6%
Sleep Duration
≥7 h 6 h 5 h <5 h n = 1157
p < 0.001
18–40 34.2% 27.3% 21.5% 17.0%
>40 39.4% 27.0% 25.2% 8.3%
Sample % 36.2% 27.2% 22.9% 13.7%
Sleep Quality
Very good Good Bad Very bad n = 1157
p < 0.001
18–40 4.2% 37.0% 48.0% 10.8%
>40 18.2% 44.4% 31.1% 6.3%
Sample % 9.6% 39.8% 41.5% 9.1%
Sleep Efficiency
≥85% 75 a 84% 65 a 74% <65% n = 1007
p < 0.003
18–40 31.7% 22.1% 19.2% 26.9%
>40 42.3% 20.6% 18.0% 19.1%
Sample % 35.7% 21.5% 18.8% 23.9%
Sleep Disorders
Not during the past month Less than once a week Once or twice a week Three or more times n = 1157
p < 0.001
18–40 1.3% 66.9% 31.0% 0.8%
>40 4.1% 68.9% 24.8% 2.3%
Sample % 2.3% 67.7% 28.6% 1.4%
Sleep Medications
Not during the past month Less than one a week Once or twice a week Three or more times n= 1157
p < 0.003
18–40 82.5% 6.9% 5.3% 5.3%
>40 74.8% 8.1% 6.3% 10.8%
Sample % 79.5% 7.3% 5.7% 7.4%
Daytime Dysfunction
No problem at all Very slight problem Somewhat of a problem A very big
problem
n = 978
p < 0.001
18–40 12.1% 36.9% 45.6% 5.4%
>40 22.6% 46.9% 29.0% 1.5%
Sample % 16.3% 40.9% 39.0% 3.9%