Open AccessSleep quality of medical students at a college in the south of Minas Gerais
Author(s) -
Pedro Fernandes Roma,
Glenia Junqueira Machado Medeiros,
Pedro Henrique Meirelles Ferreira Pinheiro de Matos
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5327/1516-3180.009
Subject(s) - pittsburgh sleep quality index , workload , sleep (system call) , medicine , graduation (instrument) , sleep quality , sleep disorder , medical education , population , gerontology , quality (philosophy) , insomnia , psychiatry , environmental health , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , computer science , operating system
Sleep is a physiological state that occurs cyclically in many living beings, analyzing rest and activity behaviors, which make up a wake-sleep cycle. At the university, medical students are faced with a lack of time and exhaustion, since the course has a full workload, a fact that causes students to leave basic activities more and more towards the end of the day, thus developing disorders of the sleep. Objective: The objective of this study is to analyze the quality of sleep and the incidence of sleep disorder in medical students. Design and setting: The research was carried out with students from a medical school in the south of Minas Gerais. Methods: The Google Forms platform was used by students to answer two self-administered questionnaires. The first encompassed questions about gender and year of graduation and the second assessed sleep quality and is called the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The Bioestat 5 and Excel 365 were used for statistical analysis. Results: The analysis of the PSQI results showed sleep disturbance in 20.5% of the students, presence of poor sleep quality in 47.2% of the students, 40.2% of students had poor or very poor subjective quality of sleep. Conclusion: Through this research, it was observed that the sleep quality of medical students is lower than that of the general population, being related to the progression of the course. It was concluded that the students in this study also have, on average, fewer hours of sleep than the rest of Brazilians.