Resumen en español

This research aimed to determine the main sleep disorders and alterations that affected the nursing students in the COVID-19 pandemy. For this purpose, the researchers used a cross-sectional descriptive study with quantitative focus from surveys made in the month of June of the Year 2022 in a public university at the city of Monteria. The sample population was 165 students of the nursing program of this public university that fulfilled the criteria needed for the survey. (93.94%) of the students were between 17 and 24 years. and (78.18%) of them were women. From the 165 students surveyed the (78.18%) did not get COVID-19, the (21.82%) left did have a positive diagnosis for COVID-19. In the survey there was evaluated the insomnia according to the eight reactive of the Athens scale. The obtained results of this survey showed that the nursery students in general tend to suffer from insomnia and daytime sleepiness represented by the (30.3%) and (21.8%) respectively. In this research there was separated the population positive and negative for COVID-19, it was highlighted that the population positive for COVID-19 and with possible sleeping alteration equals to the (63.89%) and the population negative for COVID-19 and possible sleeping alteration equals to (45.74%). According to these results it was concluded that the COVID-19 increased the sleeping alterations in the nursery students of the public university.