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Title: | Quality of sleep in a sample of Egyptian medical students |
Author: | Mohamed Elwasify, Doaa H. Barakat, Mohamed Fawzy, Mahmoud Elwasify, Ibrahem Rashed and Doaa N. Radwan |
Abstract: |
Background
In the last few years, there has been a growing attention to sleep and related disorders.
Numerous studies conducted within the past decade have analyzed the deleterious
effects of poor sleep quality on university students and medical staff in various
specialties, but only few studies have been conducted in the Middle East.
Aim
The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of poor sleep quality among
(a sample of) Egyptian medical students.
Participants and methods
This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based, observational study was conducted during
the period from April to June 2015 on 1182 undergraduate medical students from
Assiut and Mansoura Universities in Egypt.
The data were gathered using a sociodemographic questionnaire and Pittsburgh
Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and were analyzed using the SPSS software.
Results
Mean PSQI score was 6.01 (SD± 2.73). According to the PSQI, 46.7% of the
subjects had good sleep quality and 53.3% had poor sleep quality. Poor sleep quality
was mostly prevalent among those in the early years of medical education, caffeine
consumers, cigarette smokers, those with fairly bad and very bad subjective sleep
quality, those with sleep latency above 30 min, sleep duration less than 7 h, fairly bad
and very bad daytime functioning, those taking sleep medications, and those with
sleep disturbance, and sleep efficiency below 85%.
Conclusion
Poor sleep quality is highly prevalent among medical students in Egypt.
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Journal: | Middle East Current Psychiatry 2016, 23:200–207 |
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