Insomnia Severity Index and the relationship to nutritional and physical status in light of e-learning among the physical education faculty students of An-Najah National University

Abstract

The study aims at identifying the general level of anxiety, the level of severity of insomnia and its relation with the physical aspects and the nutritional status for the physical education student at An-Najah National University during the online teaching. The sample size was 286 male students among which 54% is male and 45.8% is female. The official electronic platform of An-Najah National University was utilized for data collection where questionnaires were distributed. These questionnaires, consists of demographical information, physical aspects, nutritional status and the severity index of the anxiety as well as that of the insomnia, (Bastien, et al. 2001)

The most significant result shows that 26.2% of the females has high degree of anxiety whereas 16.8 of the males have that degree of anxiety. Furthermore, 10.2% of the countryside population has high degree of anxiety and 9.1% of the city inhabitants has that degree of anxiety. Moreover, both freshmen and seniors suffer from high degree of anxiety, 7.4% and 11.5%, respectively. The results indicate also that the index of insomnia for women is 11.2% higher than that for men. Additionally, 11.2% of people who live in the city, 2.8% of those who live in the rural areas and 1% who live-in live-in refugee camps suffer from high degree of insomnia. Apart from that, freshmen and seniors suffer also from high degree of insomnia, i.e. 8.4% and 14.3%, respectively.

The results demonstrated also that the feeling lazy and unwillingness to move are among the most important physical side effect during the electronic education during the online teaching for sports education student’s at An-Najah National University with an average of 2.67 and standard deviation of 0.88. Furthermore, the nutritional status of the students was affected in a way such that students eat large amount of food with an average of 2.61 and they could not follow a healthy diet with an average of 2.59. In addition to that, 88.5% of the students of the sports education faculty at An-Najah National University has a change in their weight during the online teaching, i.e. 83.2% has a weight increase, 5.3% has a decrease in their weight and the rest has no weight change. This study suggests the existence of a correlation with ≤ 0.05 α among the total index of anxiety and the index of insomnia and the all the physical aspects and the nutritional status for the students of sports education faculty of An-Najah National University during the electronic education in the period of the online teaching.