Relationship between free-time physical activity and sleep quality in Brazilian university students

Design, population and study location

This is a cross-sectional study, part of a project conducted at a public university in Brazil. All university students aged ≥ 18 years who regularly enrolled during the collection period were invited. During the study period, the university had 12,462 undergraduates distributed across nine study centers and 50 undergraduate courses. The following inclusion criteria were considered: 18 years of age or older and actively enrolled in a face-to-face undergraduate course in the first half of 2019.

Among the 12,536 university students eligible for the…