The association of stress with sleep quality among medical students at King Abdulaziz University

Safhi, Maha A; Alafif, Raghad A; Alamoudi, Nouf M; Alamoudi, Malak M; Alghamdi, Wejdan; Albishri, Shatha F; Rizk, Hisham

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_745_19

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“…23 We found that the COVID-19 online teaching situation had contributed to a pronounced increase in the percentage of poor sleep quality among medical students in Saudi Arabia. A study conducted among medical students in King Saud University published in 2012 reported that only 36.3% of the students had poor sleep quality 24 in contrast with our findings in the same college during the COVID-19 pandemic, which reported that 81.95% of medical students suffered from poor sleep quality. These percentages are alarming and rarely presented in the literature; it may be due to the increasing demands of online teaching and perhaps the psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality among medical and general science students: King Saud University Experience

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Alkhalifah²,

Alshammari³

et al. 2022

Pak J Med Sci

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Objectives: Sleep is a vital component for overall health and well-being, and it plays an essential role in social, physical, psychological, and cognitive health. This study aimed to appraise the sleep quality in medical and science students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This questionnaire-based cross sectional study was conducted in the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during September-December 2020. In this study, a validated self-administered electronic questionnaire was distributed to 1000 students, 782 (78.2%) of whom completed the study. The selection of students was based on using the stratified random sampling. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) instrument scale was used to assess the sleep quality among medical and general sciences students. Results: Out of 782 respondents, 410 (52.4%) were medical students, and 372 (47.6%) were science students, including Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Botany, and Zoology. Among the medical students, 143 (34.9%) were in pre-clinical years (1st and 2nd), while 266 (64.9%) of them were in clinical years (3rd, 4th, and 5th). Among all medical and general sciences students, it was found that 669 (85.5%) had poor sleep quality with a mean PSQI global score (mean 8.356) among them 336 (50.2%) were medical, and 333 (49.8%) were science students. Science students’ sleep quality was poorer (mean 8.78) than their medical counterparts (mean= 7.93). Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant negative impact on students’ mental health and sleep quality. Both medical and general science students showed alarming levels of sleep deprivation and concerning low sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sleep deprivation among students may be due to the sudden change of pedagogy in education driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep quality is quite a critical issue to be evaluated and addressed nationally and globally. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.3.5171 How to cite this:Meo SA, Alkhalifah JM, Alshammari NF, Alnufaie WS, Algoblan AF. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality among medical and general science students: King Saud University Experience. Pak J Med Sci. 2022;38(3):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.3.5171 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality among medical and general science students: King Saud University Experience

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Alkhalifah²,

Alshammari³

et al. 2022

Pak J Med Sci

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“…Rafique et al (2019) reported that a physical medical problem is an independent risk factor for high perceived stress. In this study, obesity and poor sleep quality were identified as the most stressful health related factors, in line with other data (Wahed & Hassan, 2017;Safhi et al, 2020).…”

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A Cross Sectional Study on the Effect of Stress and Academic Stressors Among International Medical Students of a Romanian University

Hotoleanu

2021

ESJ

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Medical students are exposed to increased stress due to academic, psycho-social and health-related factors. This study aimed to assess the levels of stress and the associations with socio-demographic characteristics and academic performance; the frequency of the major academic stressors; the most stressful factors as stated by the students themselves. A cross-sectional study including 110 international medical students of the 3rd-year was performed in the first two weeks of November 2019. A questionnaire including socio-demographic data, a list with potential academic stressors and an open question regarding the greatest stressors in student’s opinion as well as The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, was administrated in pen-andpaper format. Mild, moderate and severe levels of stress were found in 36.73%, 22.44 %, and 13.26 % of students, respectively. Increased levels of stress were associated with poor academic performance and did not correlate with age or country of origin. The frequency of moderate and severe stress was 3-times greater in women than in men. The most stressful factors in students’ opinion were the academic stressors (88.77%) followed by psychosocial factors (25.51%) and health-related factors (9.18%). The frequency of examination was perceived as a stressor always present by more than 25% of the students. Most of the students showed elevated levels of stress. Academic factors were the most important stressors in students’ opinion. Further research is needed to identify the proper strategy to rectify academicrelated problems to decrease the levels of stress.

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“…3,4 A higher level of stress is associated with poor sleep quality in college/university students in different countries. [5][6][7] Stress is associated with shorter sleep duration and longer sleep latency in adolescents. 8 Some people have a trait-like reactivity to stress that may express in sleep problems (like insomnia-type symptoms) in response to stress.…”

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Insomnia May Mediate the Relationship Between Stress and Anxiety: A Cross-Sectional Study in University Students

Manzar¹,

Salahuddin²,

Pandi-Perumal³

et al. 2021

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The association of stress with sleep quality among medical students at King Abdulaziz University

Cited by 43 publications

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality among medical and general science students: King Saud University Experience

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality among medical and general science students: King Saud University Experience

A Cross Sectional Study on the Effect of Stress and Academic Stressors Among International Medical Students of a Romanian University

Insomnia May Mediate the Relationship Between Stress and Anxiety: A Cross-Sectional Study in University Students

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