Sleep related problems are common amongst young adults who are enrolled in professional colleges, especially among medicos. Vast syllabi demand more time which either directly or indirectly has an impact on sleeping habits. Hence, it is planned to evaluate the sleep pattern and its effects among medical students. The aim of this study is to assess sleep deprivation of medical students and its impact on their academic performance and health. The objective of this study is to study the sleep pattern among medical students, and to analyze the causes and effects of sleep deprivation based on a given questionnaire. Study Centre: Tertiary teaching institute. Study population: 4 group of 400 medical students in 4 batches (each 100) A-I MBBS; B-II MBBS; C-III MBBS; D-IV MBBS. Study material: Questionnaire containing 20 close ended multiple-choice questions, Study design: cross sectional study. 85 % of medicos are sleeping less than 8 hours per night. 56.5 % of III and IV years and 34 % of I and II years sleep late in the night. Only 5 %-18 % can do normal work after a sleepless night. Sleepless nights due to continuous examinations reduce academic performance. (50 % of I and II year, 45.5 % of III and IV year). The present study updates us with information that the medical professionals suffer from sleep deprivation which leads to reduced performance and health issues. Appropriate counseling and proper planning to reduce the stress imposed should be practiced to control the situation rightly.

Drug compliance can be defined as reliability of a patient in using a prescribed medication as ordered by the physician. 1. The importance of this term comes into picture when a person suffering from a chronic ailment is put on long term medications. Such situations come for diseases like diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, tuberculosis etc. Diabetes Mellitus (DM), the most common endocrine disease in the world, is a major global public health issue. 3 As a group, patients with diabetes are especially prone to substantial regimen adherence problems .4 Noncompliance occurs when the patient forgets or neglects to take the prescribed dosages at recommended times or decides to discontinue the drug without consulting the physician 1. Effective and successful glucose control requires appropriate and timely use of medication over the entire period of treatment, which is often lifelong. Poor treatment adherence that contributes to suboptimal glycemic control continues to be one of the major barriers to effective diabetes management. Treatment failure is in turn associated with reduced treatment benefits and can have a negative financial burden on both individual patients and the society at large 9, 10. In fact, effective diabetes management often needs coordinated quality services 11 .