Calidad del sueño y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca marzo- agosto 2015

Abstract

Background: Poor sleep quality of medical students is caused by their class and study schedules, hospital shifts, emotional and academic stress, which produces several physic and mental health consequences. Previous studies have shown the relationship between bad sleep quality and poor academic performance of college students.

Objectives: Characterize the sleep quality and its relationship with the academic performance of medical students of the semester March-August 2015 from Cuenca´s University.

Methodology: In this transversal study we used a sample randomly selected of 246 medical students. The total of participants were 244, after exclusion criteria was applied and the incorrect filled tests were removed. We used ICSP to value the sleep quality and we got the global grades of the last semester. This study searched for the relationship between sleep quality and academic performance through p, OR and IC.

Conclusions: Poor sleep quality prevalence in medical students was 66,2%, and it was more common in women (71%). From the students with good academic performance, the percentage of 67% had a poor sleep quality. We didn’t find statistical association between academic performance and sleep quality.

Use of the results: This study’s results have given a general view of bad sleep quality’s prevalence of medicine students from our university, and its relationship with their academic performance. The importance of this study consists in the shortage of studies, statistics and information about this issue in our country