Calidad de sueño y factores asociados en internos rotativos de la carrera de Medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca 2019

Abstract

Background: The quality of sleep refers to sleeping at the appropriate times according to your age to have an optimal daytime performance. Course objective: determine the quality of sleep and its associated factors in the interns of the medical career of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Cuenca, year 2019. Methodology: quantitative, analytical study, cross-sectional cohort. 141 medical interns who participated in the inclusion criteria participated. For the analysis descriptive statistics were applied and for the association with the associated factors and the quality of sleep the chi-square test, prevalence ratio, 95% confidence interval and p value (<0.05) were used. Results: 51.8% of participants were, with an average age of 24.7 years (standard deviation ± 0.98), 80.1% had age ranges from 23 to 25 years, single marital status in 86.5% and 27% They were rotating in the gynecology service. 99.3% according to the Pittsburgh Index had poor sleep quality, 86.5% of them needed medical attention and treatment and 3.5% had a serious sleep problem. There was no statistically significant relationship between poor sleep quality and factors such as: sex, age, rotation, daily caffeine intake and tobacco consumption (p> 0.05). Conclusions: very high and alarming figures were found regarding poor sleep quality in medical interns, without finding any association with the factors proposed for the present investigation.