Prevalence of Clinical Medical Students who had Poor Sleep Quality; a Study in one of the Medical School in the Northeastern Thailand

Abstract

Background and Objectives: The poor sleep quality has associated with poor health and considered common problem especially in the group of students studied outside the regular time. Researchers have objectives to study prevalence of medical students who had poor sleep quality and related factors to poor sleep quality.

Methods: A descriptive study was conducted in 441 clinical medical students in one of the university in Northeastern part of Thailand during 2017 semester, which were sampled by stratified random sampling to 341 clinical medical students.  Self-administered questionnaire was used. SPSS Version 17.0, were used to analyze descriptive statistics and statistical inferences are Pearson’s chi-square, odds ratio, 95% confidence interval.

Results: The overall response rate was 70.4% (240/341), 45.2% of clinical medical students had poor sleep quality (95% CI: 38.6-51.9) in which most of them were the 6^th year. Sleep duration was the component which had the highest average score. Doing important work before bedtime (52.1%) is the poorest sleep hygiene among clinical medical students. 54.9% of clinical medical students suspect or have stress problem (OR 4.02; 95% CI: 2.3-7.1).

Conclusion:  45.2% of clinical medical students had poor sleep quality in which 6^th year medical students have the most proportion. One-quarter of clinical medical students have stress problem.