Original title: Prevalence of adult attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder symptoms among university students and their relation to sleeping duration, time management skills, and academic performance
The researchers surveyed students at Jazan University in Saudi Arabia about ADHDA neurodevelopmental condition involving symptoms such as inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. symptoms, sleep, time management, and grades. About 26% of the students included in the study reported adult ADHD symptoms. Symptoms were associated with sleeping fewer than four hours a night and having a lower GPAA score that summarizes a student's grades.. But links to other measures of academic performance and time management were not consistent. Because the study took a snapshot rather than following students over time, it cannot show that one factor caused another.
Imagine trying to work out why chores are piling up in a shared home. You ask everyone once about their sleep, schedules, and unfinished tasks, but that snapshot cannot tell you what caused what. In this paper, the students’ answers are that snapshot: they show which things went together, not whether short sleep caused ADHD symptoms or lower grades.
University students with ADHD symptoms may face challenges that affect their well-being and studies. The results point to links with very short sleep and lower GPA, while showing that links to other measures of academic performance and time management were inconsistent.
The cross-sectional design shows associations, not cause and effect. The study covers students at one university and uses self-administered questionnaires. Associations with the Academic Performance Scale and time-management skills were inconsistent, so the findings do not establish how ADHD symptoms affect those outcomes.
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Prevalence of adult attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder symptoms among university students and their relation to sleeping duration, time management skills, and academic performance — Maged El‐Setouhy, Suhaila Abdalkarim Ali, Mohammad R. Zaino et al. — PeerJ — doi:10.7717/peerj.21688
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