HP 4.3 – Sleep and Mindfulness Programs

Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

University : Siam University

Country : Thailand

Web Address : https://sustainability.siam.edu

HP 4 Physical Activity and Active Mobility

[4.3] Promotion of Sleep and Mindfulness Programs

Description:

Siam University’s Health and Well-being Policy commits the University to mental and emotional well-being through counselling, awareness campaigns, workshops and training that build resilience. Sleep and mindfulness are promoted through a university-wide yoga and mindfulness programme for staff and students, staff sessions of the Faculty of Medicine, meditation and stress-management activities of the Faculty of Nursing, relaxation activities of the Faculty of Pharmacy, and a study of medical students’ sleep (Tables HP 4.3.1 and 4.3.4).

Yoga and mindfulness. International Day of Yoga is held every June in the Sports Complex. In 2025 more than 120 faculty members and students took part; in 2026 the “Breathe, Stretch, Connect” programme gave about 100 students, staff and members of the public guided yoga and mindfulness to reduce stress, improve concentration and promote relaxation.

Faculty of Medicine. On 1 July 2026 the Faculty held Siam-Med Happy Place for its lecturers and staff: a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist of the Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry led talks and practice in listening with the heart, so that staff can work together happily. The same programme trained Year 1–3 medical students as peer helpers in July and October 2026.

Faculty of Nursing. Each Elderly Club session opens with prayer, meditation and loving-kindness practice; in five sessions from June 2025 to August 2026 nursing lecturers attended 38 times and nursing students 311 times, and satisfaction with the meditation activity rose from 3.92 to 4.20 out of 5 (Table HP 4.3.2). The Faculty also ran four stress-management and resilience projects (December 2025 – January 2026), gives university personnel an annual physical and mental health check, and its Dhamma Sanchorn programme took 55 students and their advisor to practise mindfulness and sitting meditation – 98% became more mindful and careful.

Sleep. A study of 103 first- to third-year medical students found that 65% go to bed after midnight and 41.7% sleep only 5–6 hours; phone or social-media use in bed (54.4%) was the main cause, and 95.2% felt sleepy in class (Table HP 4.3.3). The results point to a sleep-hygiene programme on screen time and stress before bed, which can be combined with the mindfulness activities above.

Table HP 4.3.1 – Faculties and their sleep or mindfulness programmes

Table HP 4.3.2 – Meditation in Elderly Club sessions, Faculty of Nursing

Source: Elderly Club schedules and evaluation reports (attendances per session).

Table HP 4.3.3 – Sleep behaviour of medical students (needs assessment)

Source: research poster, GE course 103-206, semesters 3/2568 and 1/2569.

Table HP 4.3.4 – Programmes, participation and results

11 programmes; 8 include staff (lecturers, advisors or personnel). Sources: Faculty of Medicine website; SDG Report 2024–2025, p. 46; Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8, 38, 54 and 102; Dhamma Sanchorn project summary; Elderly Club evaluations; Faculty of Nursing project reports; THE 3.3.5 and 3.3.7 evidence.

Table HP 4.3.5 – Coverage needed for each level

Green: current position.

Evidence to attach:

• Siam-Med Happy Place for lecturers and staff (1 July 2026): med.siam.edu – “รับฟังด้วยใจ เพื่อใจเป็นสุข”

• Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8, 54 and 102: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf; SDG Report 2024–2025, p. 46: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SDG-report-2024-2025.pdf

• Dhamma Sanchorn project summary (programme, meditation schedule, evaluation and photos, without the name list); Elderly Club programmes and evaluations; Faculty of Nursing stress-management project reports; the sleep-behaviour research poster.