Modern Loveok

The university experience is of great value in providing emerging adults with a structured environment in which they can gain the knowledge, skills, and independence to chart their own path, become successfully employed, and contribute to society. However, this experience comes at great cost given rising tuition fees and ballooning student debt, and thus, it is vital that the university years be as efficacious as possible. A potential obstacle to maximizing success in university is the high prevalence of daytime sleepiness, sleep deprivation, and irregular sleep schedules among college students which is more commonly known as insomnia. The American National Commission of Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) defines insomnia as “a chronic or acute sleep disorder characterized by a complaint of difficulty initiating, and maintaining sleep, and a subjective complaint of poor sleep quality that result in daytime impairment and subjective report of impairment”.