Abstract

GRANADOS-CARRASCO, Zaida et al. Sleep quality in a Lambayeque’s faculty of medicine. An. Fac. med. [online]. 2013, vol.74, n.4, pp.311-314. ISSN 1025-5583.

Background: Good sleep quality is important for university students to accomplish satisfactory academic performance. There is lack of local data on poor sleep quality frequency among faculty of medicine students. Objectives: To determine the frequency of poor sleep quality in students from a Faculty of Medicine. Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo (USAT), Chiclayo, Lambayeque, Peru. Participants: University students. Interventions: To students from all four university schools -medicine, psychology, nursery and dentistry-the Pittsburg quality index scale validated in Spanish and in Peru was applied. Main outcome measures: Frequency of poor sleeping quality by school and description of Pittsburg scale components. Results: Two hundred and forty-seven students were interviewed: 194 women (78.5%) and 53 men (21.5%). Median age was 20.04 ± 2.53 years; there were 210 ‘poor sleepers’ (85%); the frequency of poor quality of sleepiness was as follows: medicine (89.5%), nursery (86.4%), dentistry (84.4%) and psychology (78.2%). Psychology students reported the highest use of hypnotics: 21.8%. Conclusions: At USAT Faculty of Medicine there was high frequency of poor sleep quality; the school of psychology reported the highest use of hypnotics.

Keywords : Poor quality of sleepiness; University students; Pittsburg quality Sleepiness Scale.

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