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Purpose: Purpose of this descriptive research is to examine internet use and sleep related influencing factors of university students and to prepare for the basic data to develop nursing intervention which could be helpful to sleep management which is a major factor of university student’s health management. Method: Study subjects were targeting 228 university students and the correlation between internet addiction disorder and sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), insomnia was analyzed using Pearson‘s Correlation and logistic regression analysis was conducted with the variables which are predicted to affect the excessive daytime sleepiness(EDS) and insomnia like gender, internet addiction disorder and sleep aspect. Results: Sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), insomnia and internet addiction disorder showed significant correlation. Logistic regression result identified the influencing factor of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and insomnia as internet addiction disorder and it increases excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) risk by 1.033(OR 1.033, 95%CI 1.07-1.059) and insomnia risk by 1.022 (OR 1.022, 95%CI 1.002-1.042).