Influence of exercise and physical fitness toward student sleep quality

Abstract

Sleep is one of human physiological need which naturally happen due to changes in consciousness with characterized by decrement in consciousness and response to stimuli. Exercise is organized, and planned tone movement aimed to increase the body functional ability to achieve specific purpose. The study aim was to determine the influence of physical fitness and exercise toward the SMA Negeri 2 Barru student 's sleep quality. The study was used pre experimental using pre-Test and post-Test group design. The study population was all grade X students in SMA Negeri 2 Barru aged between 15 years old and 16 years old which total of 71 students. The samples were 31 samples who volunteered to involve in this study. The respondents had followed four weeks physical fitness and exercise with three times per week with 15 minutes duration. The sleep quality was measured using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) on the pre-Test and post-Test. The result showed mean score on pre-Test was 9.55 1.710 and post-Test was 5.39 1.874. Meanwhile, statistical test showed p=0.001<0.05 which meant there was decreased global score on post-Test. These results proved that there was influenced of physical fitness and exercise toward the student sleep quality after the post-Test.