Abstract

NUNEZ-BAEL, Luis Nicolas; VARGAS-ARANDA, Iván Arnaldo  and  ARIA-ZAYA, Laura Silvana. Sleep quality in medical students at the Pacific University. Rev. cient. cienc. salud [online]. 2024, vol.6, e6303.  Epub Oct 30, 2024. ISSN 2664-2891.  https://doi.org/10.53732/rccsalud/2024.e6303.

Introduction. Poor quality of sleep is very common these days due to different factors, and this is seen in greater quantities in the university population where it is very important that they have good quality of sleep to obtain favorable results in their academic performance. Objective. Determine the quality of sleep of medical students at the Universidad del Pacifico in the year 2023. Materials and Methods. An analytical cross-sectional observational study was carried out on medical students at the Universidad del Pacifico from the first to the sixth year of their degree. during the 2023 academic period. The instrument used was the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Questionnaire (PSQI) with prior consent from the students. Results. A total of 158 surveys were analyzed, 77.8% (123/158) were female and 22.15% (35/158) were male. The frequency of bad dreamers among all respondents was 56.96% (90/158). A significant relationship was found between sex and sleep quality p: 0.021. Regarding the frequency of use of hypnotic medication, 21.52% (34/158) claim to use it. Conclusion. The frequency of bad dreamers is high in the study population, it would be good to analyze changes in class and practice schedules in order to achieve a better quality of sleep in the students, since this could help them obtain better results both in academically as well as in their quality of life.

Keywords : sleep quality; students; hypnotic medication.

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