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The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep beliefs in students of helping professions and to explore
differences in sleep beliefs considering circadian typology. We have also investigated the
relationship between sleep beliefs, self-assessment of awareness of healthy sleep recommendations
and self-assessment of sleep quality. Moreover we have investigated the relationship of circadian
typology with assessment of awareness of recommendations for healthy sleep and assessment of
one's own sleep quality. This study was conducted online among 563 students from seven different
study programmes of helping professions at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Sleep beliefs were
examined with Sleep Beliefs Scale (Adan et al., 2006) and circadian typology with Composite Scale of
Morningness (Smith et al., 1989). The average percentage of correct sleep beliefs in helping
professions students was 61%. The results showed low positive correlation between correctness of
sleep beliefs and one's own assessment of awareness of healthy sleep recommendations. Greater self
assessed sleep quality was associated with greater tendency toward morningness. The differences in
the accuracy of sleep beliefs between students of different circadian typology was not found, neither
was the correlation between accuracy of sleep beliefs and assessment of one's own sleep quality, nor
the correlation between circadian typology dimension and assessment of awareness of healthy sleep
recommendations. The results of our study implicate that university students, even those with some
formal education on sleep physiology and psychology, could benefit from sleep hygiene education
programs, both personally and professionally.
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