ABSTRACT

Introduction : Sleep is an important thing that is needed by human to get the

optimal body function. Poor sleep quality may activate the symphatetic nerve and
causes the increasing blood pressure. Objective : To determine the effect of
quality and quantity of sleep with blood pressure among students of Universitas
Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. Methods : The sampling used Simple Random
Sampling with the total samples are 95 respondents. This study was conducted to
look at sleep quality and sleep quantity by using PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality
Index) which is done directly by respondents. The blood pressure examinations
are done with a spyhgmomanometer Riester and stetoschope Littman. Results :
This research had for the good quality is 28,4% and the poor is 71,6% for all
samples. Sleep duration for 5-6 hours is 58,9% duration for >7 hours is 7,4% for
7 hours 20% and for <5 jam hours is 13,7%. Respondents with normal blood
pressure is 62,1% while the prehypertension is 30,5% and hypertension grade I is
7,4%. The results for statistic analize showed that there is no difference between
the blood pressure according to the sleep quality and sleep quantity among
students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. Conclusion : There is
no difference between the blood pressure according to the sleep quality and sleep
quantity among students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara.

Keyword : Blood Pressure, Sleep Quality, Sleep Quantity, Students