Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh

BACKGROUND: College students are at risk of many sleep disorders that may affect their performance. We conducted this study to identify the sleeping patterns, poor sleep quality factors among medical students, and to observe if there is any relationship between the student’s grades and their level o...

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Main Authors: Danish Hasan Qaiser, Omar Abdulmohsen Albanyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.jpmsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/JPMS-VOL8-ISSUE1-PAGES9-12-OA.pdf
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spelling doaj-94369cbb39324307a510a2f8dd6a346a2020-11-24T21:53:34ZengJournal of Pioneering Medical SciencesJournal of Pioneering Medical Sciences 2309-79812309-79812018-01-0181912Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, RiyadhDanish Hasan Qaiser 0 Omar Abdulmohsen Albanyan 1MBBS, MPhil (Physiology), Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Hamdard University, Karachi, PakistanM.D, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaBACKGROUND: College students are at risk of many sleep disorders that may affect their performance. We conducted this study to identify the sleeping patterns, poor sleep quality factors among medical students, and to observe if there is any relationship between the student’s grades and their level of distress. METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional study that was conducted in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Medicine (male campus), Riyadh. We included 101 (2nd, 3rd, and 4th year) male medical students who completed a self-administered questionnaire. The students sleeping disturbances were evaluated by using Epworth Sleeping Scale (ESS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and their distress was evaluated by the Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUD). A relationship between student’s distress and their grade was determined by using one-way ANOVA. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 21. RESULTS: The mean ±SD of the number of hours medical students slept was 5.6±2.6 hours. The most common cause of disturbed sleep was not being able to fall asleep within 30 minutes after going to bed. The mean score for ESS was 8.2 ±5.4. Most students had an ESS score <10 indicating that they had a normal amount of daytime sleepiness and good sleep. There was a relationship between the academic year and ESS; a higher percentage of the students in 3rd and 4th year were sleepy (ESS ≥ 10) than 2nd year (P = 0.04). There was no relation between the student’s grades and their level of distress (P = 0.37). CONCLUSION: Medical students got less actual sleep hours than the optimal sleep duration. However, most had normal day time sleepiness. There was no relation between the student’s grades and their level of distress.http://www.jpmsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/JPMS-VOL8-ISSUE1-PAGES9-12-OA.pdfDistressAcademicPerformanceSleepCross-sectional Study
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author Danish Hasan Qaiser
Omar Abdulmohsen Albanyan
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Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh
Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences
Distress
Academic
Performance
Sleep
Cross-sectional Study
author_facet Danish Hasan Qaiser
Omar Abdulmohsen Albanyan
author_sort Danish Hasan Qaiser
title Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh
title_short Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh
title_full Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh
title_fullStr Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh
title_full_unstemmed Sleeping Disturbances/Disorders in Medical Students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh
title_sort sleeping disturbances/disorders in medical students of king saud bin abdulaziz university for health sciences, riyadh
publisher Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences
series Journal of Pioneering Medical Sciences
issn 2309-7981
2309-7981
publishDate 2018-01-01
description BACKGROUND: College students are at risk of many sleep disorders that may affect their performance. We conducted this study to identify the sleeping patterns, poor sleep quality factors among medical students, and to observe if there is any relationship between the student’s grades and their level of distress. METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional study that was conducted in King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, College of Medicine (male campus), Riyadh. We included 101 (2nd, 3rd, and 4th year) male medical students who completed a self-administered questionnaire. The students sleeping disturbances were evaluated by using Epworth Sleeping Scale (ESS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and their distress was evaluated by the Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUD). A relationship between student’s distress and their grade was determined by using one-way ANOVA. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 21. RESULTS: The mean ±SD of the number of hours medical students slept was 5.6±2.6 hours. The most common cause of disturbed sleep was not being able to fall asleep within 30 minutes after going to bed. The mean score for ESS was 8.2 ±5.4. Most students had an ESS score <10 indicating that they had a normal amount of daytime sleepiness and good sleep. There was a relationship between the academic year and ESS; a higher percentage of the students in 3rd and 4th year were sleepy (ESS ≥ 10) than 2nd year (P = 0.04). There was no relation between the student’s grades and their level of distress (P = 0.37). CONCLUSION: Medical students got less actual sleep hours than the optimal sleep duration. However, most had normal day time sleepiness. There was no relation between the student’s grades and their level of distress.
topic Distress
Academic
Performance
Sleep
Cross-sectional Study
url http://www.jpmsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/JPMS-VOL8-ISSUE1-PAGES9-12-OA.pdf
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