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Sleep Disruption and its Correlation to Psychological Distress Among Medical Students

Author(s):
A Sahraian A Sahraian 1, A JavadpourA Javadpour1,*
1Assistant Professor, Research Centre for Psychiatry and Behavioral sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran


Shiraz E-Medical Journal:Vol. 11, issue 1; 12-17
Published online:Jan 01, 2010
Article type:Research Article
Received:Apr 15, 2009
Accepted:Oct 14, 2009
How to Cite:A Sahraian A JavadpourSleep Disruption and its Correlation to Psychological Distress Among Medical Students.Shiraz E-Med J.11(1):20378.

Abstract

Background:

Medical students are a population who are at great risk to develop sleep disrup-tion due to demanding clinical and academic duties. Knowing how much change in sleep wake pattern is associated with subsequent psychological distress could be useful to establish a systematic mental health program in medical schools.

Methods:

We performed a cross-sectional study to identify the sleep quality and its correla-tion to psychological distress among 159 medical students.The instruments employed for data collection were a self report sleep- wake questionnaire, Pittsburg sleep quality index (PSQI), the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and a general questionnaire regarding demographic characteristics, use of drugs and history of psychopa-thology.

Result:

In descriptive analysis 57.2% of subjects were defined as poor sleeper. Moreover, there was a significant correlation between sleep quality and general health status of stu-dents (r=.6, p=. 000, n= 159). Further Regression analysis showed that number of sleep disruption was a predictor for both sleep quality and psychological distress

Conclusion:

Sleep disruption due to shift work or other academic demanding could be a predictor for mental health morbidity in medical students which should be considered in education and mental health policy for this group of students.

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