ABSTRACT
The longer a person uses the gadget at night, the harder it will be to fall asleep. Symptoms are difficult to fall asleep commonly called insomnia. The largest users of gadgets in Indonesia are occupied by people aged 19-34 years (49.52%). Impact of insomnia for students can indirectly reduce the concentration of learning so as to reduce student achievement in the academic. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the length of use gadgets before sleep with insomnia symptoms in the students of Public Health Study Program. The type of research is observational analytic with cross sectional study design. The study population is all students of Public Health Study Program year 2015, 2016, and 2017, FIK, UMS as many as 482 students. Samples were taken as many as 236 students using Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling technique. Data analysis using Chi-square test. The results showed no significant relationship between the length of use gadgets before sleep with insomnia symptomp in the students of Public Health Study Program (p value = 0.132). Some of the possible factors that led to this study did not have any relationship due to, the number of gadgets owned by the students, the long use of gadgets in a day, the habit of reading before sleep (56%), the habit of listening to music before sleep (57.8%), stay up (76.1%), long sleeping habits and irregular sleep hours (84.4%) and less exercise habits (86%).
Keywords: Length of Use Gadget, Before Sleep, Insomnia Symptoms, Student