DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2023.v11i01.004

Pages: 15-18

The Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic is one of the main health threats to every individual of all nations, continents, races, and age groups. The high number of confirmed positive cases and the high death rate in Indonesia, as well as the outbreak of COVID-19 in Indonesia, has caused a lot of anxiety, not only from the health sector but also a major impact on the education sector, which has negative psychological effects in the form of post-traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger which can be a factor causing students to experience sleep patterns and stress problems. The type of research used is observational analytical research with a cross-sectional design. The research instruments used were the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) Scale questionnaire and the depression anxiety stress questionnaire (DASS21). To test for the existence of a relationship between sleep patterns and stress levels, Spearman’s rho test was used. The respondents in this study were 215 students of the Faculty of Public Health. The majority of students experienced impaired sleep patterns (60.9%), and most experienced normal stress levels (32.6%). Students who experienced disturbed sleep patterns, most experienced very severe stress levels (18.6%). From Spearman’s rho correlation test, significant results were found with a p-value of < 0.05, which is 0.000, which means that there is a significant relationship between sleep patterns and stress levels. The conclusion obtained from this study is that there is a significant relationship between sleep patterns and stress levels during the covid 19 pandemic in students of the Faculty of Public Health, Sam Ratulangi University.