The Implication of Late Sleeping towards the Brain Fatigue among the Final Year Students

Abstract

Late sleeping may reduce physiological and psychological health, including brain fatigue.
The aim of this study is identify the impacts of late sleeping towards the brain fatigue among
Year 3 students of Sutopo Nursing Program. The study adopts descriptive design. The
population comprises all Year 3 semester 6 students at the school. The population 30
students who sleep late and all of them were appointes as the samples of the study (total
sampling). The variables are late sleeping and brain tiredness. The data were collected using
questionnaire and analyzed descriptively. The study results show that all students who sleep
late suffer from brain fatigue at different levels. There are 29 (96,7%) students experienced
moderate brain tiredness due to spending much time awake at night, and only 1 (3,3%) who
experienced serve brain fatigue. It is concluded that night late sleeping triggers brain
fatigueness. The study recommends students to spend adequate duration of sleeping at night
to avoid brain tiredness.