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These were more commonly males (46.4 versus 37.6%; <jats:italic>χ</jats:italic><jats:sup>2</jats:sup> = 58, <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001), had later sleep–wake habits, more daytime sleepiness and worse night sleep quality. Chronotype distribution was also different, with a slight but significantly higher proportion of extremely evening/evening types amongst early drop‐outs (<jats:italic>χ</jats:italic><jats:sup>2</jats:sup> = 10, <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.05). These results suggest that the more evening the student, the lower their likelihood of choosing/being able to follow circadian advice.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Sleep Research","year":2024,"id":614380,"datarank":0.20794415416798362,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"self_citation_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1583167,"name":"Esther D. 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