PURPOSE: To examine the associations between gait speed and sleep quality in first-year university students, according to gender. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 193 first-year university students [mean age±standard deviation (SD): 19.6±1.1 years; mean height: 178.0±10.5 cm; mean weight: 74.0±11.0 kg; 26.9% women). Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality questionnaire, with a lower score indicating "better" sleep quality. Gait speed was measured using the Zebris pressure platform. The associations were examined with generalized linear models and multiple regression analysis. RESULTS: In the unadjusted model, faster participants had significantly "better" sleep quality (β=-3.15, 95% CI -3.82 to -2.47, p<0.001). When the model was adjusted for sex, age, body-mass index, self-rated health, smoking status, and psychological distress, faster participants remained having "better" sleep quality (β=-2.88, 95% CI -3.53 to -2.22, p<0.001). CONCLUSION: This study shows that sleep quality can be predicted by gait speed in the first-year university students.

Faculty of Kinesiology Department of General and Applied Kinesiology University of Zagreb Zagreb 10 000 Croatia

Faculty of Science Department of Recruitment and Examination Masaryk University Brno 625 00 Czech Republic

Faculty of Sports Studies Department of Sport Motorics and Methodology in Kinanthropology Masaryk University Brno 625 00 Czech Republic

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