More than two-thirds of students experience significant problems with excessive drowsiness.
More than a third of students fall asleep in class at least once a week.
56.8% get “enough sleep to feel rested” at most only 3 nights a week.
20% pull “all-nighters” at least once a month.
One quarter of US college students describe their sleep problems as “traumatic or difficult to handle.”
Each additional day per week on average a student experienced sleep problems raises the probability of dropping a course by 10% and lowers the cumulative GPA by .02.
US college students with excessive sleepiness are twice as likely to abuse prescription drugs.
A person with insufficient sleep is 9 times more likely to experience depression and 17 times more likely to experience anxiety symptoms.
A student experiencing sleep difficulties is 3.7 times more likely to seriously consider suicide than a student with healthy sleep.
A student diagnosed with insomnia is 11 times more likely to have attempted suicide than a student without an insomnia diagnosis.
85% of U.S. college students with sleep problems have not received help from their university health services.