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Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire, which included questions about socio-demographics, socio-economic factors, the Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire-Mizan, Sleep hygiene index, Perceived stress scale-10 (PSS-10), and Generalized anxiety disorder-7 scale (GAD-7).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> The prevalence of anxiety symptoms was about 22%. Multivariate regression analysis showed that both anxiety status \u03c7<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>[(13, <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 480) = 82.68, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001], and increasing levels of anxiety (model adjusted R2 = 0.204, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.001) were associated with greater psychological stress, inadequate sleep hygiene practices, and poor sleep quality scores after adjusting for age, gender, attendance, substance use, years of university education, time spent in athletic activity every day, and frequency of tea\/coffee consumption.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> There was a high prevalence of anxiety symptoms in this study population, and this condition was associated with psychological stress, poor sleep, and inadequate sleep hygiene parameters. 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