Sleep quality in medical students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Introduction: in special situations such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, university students have been affected by quarantine and temporary suspension of face-to-face teaching activities, consequently, they show signs of anxiety, depression and sleep disorders.

Objective: to determine the possible impact on the quality of sleep of the Medicine students of the School of Medical Sciences ́ ́Manuel Fajardo Rivero ́ ́ in the period November 2020 to February 2021.

Material and methods: an observational, analytical and cross-sectional study was carried out in the period November 2020 - February 2021. A sample of 37 medical students was selected from a universe of 45. For the processing of the results, the package statistics from Microsoft Excel 2013 and the Shapiro-Wilk test. The statistical software Statistica version 10 was used.

Results: there was a predominance of the male sex over the female, the most evident anxiety is presented in the students with sleep disturbances. The psychological affectation predominated for the variables of Pittsburg, Anxiety and Depression and a high self-perception of the medium-low academic performance that is related to alterations in the quality of the same.

Conclusions: sleep quality disorders suffered by medical students due to the Covid19 pandemic can manifest in different ways according to sex and age group. Anxiety and psychological disorders predominated as secondary affectation to disorders of the sleep, as well as the self-perception of a medium-low level in academic performance.