Calidad del sueño en estudiantes de la carrera de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca. 2024. Cuenca, Ecuador

Abstract

Background: sleep hygiene refers to all components related to the use and quality of sleep and/or rest of the human organism. In the case of university students, the quality of sleep is fundamental in the assimilation of knowledge and academic performance. Particularly, medical students often neglect their own sleep and health under hard academic pressures. Objective: to characterize the quality of sleep in medical students of the University of Cuenca, 2024. Methodology: A descriptive study was carried out with 200 medical students. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire was applied. The information was processed SPSS version 21. Statisticians were used as mean and standard deviation (SD) for the age variable, and frequency and percentage for the rest of the variables, and chi square to measure the relationship of sociodemographic variables with sleep quality. Results: predominated students over 20 years (66%), female (59%) and urban (78%), only 33% had good sleep quality, better in those of 20 years or less (48.5%) and first to fifth academic cycle (43%). Conclusions: low sleep quality was found mostly. Its quality is significantly affected in students over 20 years of age, and from the sixth academic cycle onwards