Life style and quality of sleep in medical students of a public university, during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1679-9836.v101i2e-193941Keywords:
Lifestyle, Sleep, Students, medicalAbstract
Introduction: The academic life of medical students may compromise sleep quality and quality of life. Objective: To evaluate lifestyle and sleep quality in medical students. Methods: This is an online cross-sectional survey study. Two-hundred attending medical students of a public university in São Paulo were invited to participate and 61(30.5%) answered the questionnaire. Sampling occured during the COVID-19, between november 2020 and march 2021. Exclusion criteria was incorrect filling of the questionnaire. The Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Fantastic Life Questionnaire (FLQ) were applied. Differences between more than two medians were calculated by Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA. The association between life style and sleep quality was calculated by Spearman correlation. A p value <0.05 was considered. Results: PSQI median was 6 (poor) and FLQ was 55 (good). As life style worsened, sleep quality also worsened (p=0.005). A correlation between a worse life style and a worse sleep quality was observed (p<0.001). Conclusion: It was observed that most medical students had a good or regular life style and a poor sleep quality. As long as sleep quality worsened, life style worsened. This study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and its results may have been influenced by this.
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