Year: 2024 | Month: January | Volume: 11 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 15-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240103
Factors Associated with Poor Quality of Sleep on Medical Students at Faculty of Medicine Udayana University
Felisia1, Ni Putu Ayu Putri Mahadewi2, I Made Oka Adnyana3, Desak Ketut Indrasari Utami4
1Undergraduate Medical Study Program, 2,3,4Neurologist, I Goesti Ngoerah Gde Ngoerah General Hospital
Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Corresponding Author: Ni Putu Ayu Putri Mahadewi
ABSTRACT
Background: Medical students are among the populations most vulnerable to poor sleep quality. This was a result due to the demanding schedule and extensive course material required of a prospective physician. Sleep problems may contribute to malpractice, burnout, and a decline in professionalism at work. For that reason, monitoring sleep quality becomes an important matter to optimize the use of future health services.
Purpose: To identify factors contributing to poor sleep quality in medical students of the Faculty of Medicine at Udayana University.
Methods: This study was a descriptive study with a cross-sectional approach in which data were gathered by distributing a questionnaire to medical students at the Faculty of Medicine Udayana University. SPSS was used to analyze data using both univariate and bivariate analysis.
Results: This study was participated by 369 medical students at the Faculty of Medicine Udayana University in from academic year 2020, 2021, and 2022. The prevalence of poor sleep quality obtained from the statistics was 285 students 77,2%. This study looks into nine variables that are thought to be associated with sleep quality. Data analysis results indicated three factors were strongly linked with poor sleep quality which was sleep hygiene (p=0.000), academic stress (p=0.000), and caffeine consumption (p=0.014).
Conclusion: Poor quality of sleep in medical students at the Faculty of Medicine Udayana University was found having important significancy (p<0.05) with poor sleep hygiene, high levels of academic stress, and routine caffeine consumption.
Keywords: sleep quality, medical student, sleep quality factors
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