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Students
Student Health Services
Sleep initiation and maintenance disorders.
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Abstract
There is a high prevalence of bad quality of sleep in university students, especially medicine. Sleep disturbance adversely affect the mental, physical health and quality of life. To evaluate the quality of sleep and insomnia and his association with the academic yield in medicine students of a public university from Colombian Caribbean Coast. Cross sectional study, carried out on sample of first to tenth-semester of medical students from Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia who agreed to participate in the investigation by signing an informed consent form. The Athens scale, the Epworth sleepiness scale and the Pittsburgh sleep quality index was applied with a survey compilation of socio-demographic and academic data. A global sum of five or greater in Athens scale indicates insomnia and a global sum of five or greater in Pittsburgh indicates a poor sleeper. A stratified sample by gender and semester was chosen. Data analysis was performed using Epi-Info statical program (version 7). A p value <0.05 was considered as statically significant. 210 medical students filled completely the surveys. Students had a average age 19.7 ± 2.0 SD. Males: 49%, students from Cartagena city: 69%. Academic average 3.8±0.28 SD. Students with a high academic performance: 31.4%. 88.1% were poor sleepers. It was not found statically significant difference between good sleeper, poor sleeper and academic yield. 46.6% of students had insomnia. Students with academic high performance had significantly lower presence of insomnia. Students with insomnia and poor sleeper were more significant presence of daytime sleepiness. Medical students of one Colombia University had higher prevalence of poor sleeper, but it was not associated with academic yield. Insomnia also was prevalent and had significant association with academic performance.References
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