Salud mental y calidad de sueño en estudiantes de ocho facultades de medicina humana del Perú

Vilchez‐Cornejo, Jennifer; Quiñones-Laveriano, Dante; Failoc‐Rojas, Virgilio E.; Acevedo-Villar, Tania; Larico Calla, Gabriel Leonardo; Mucching‐Toscano, Sergio; Torres‐Roman, J. Smith; Aquino-Núñez, Priscila Tereza; Córdova-De la Cruz, Jhomar; Huerta‐Rosario, Andrely; Espinoza-Amaya, Juan Jesús; Palacios-Vargas, Luis Alberto; Díaz-Vélez, Cristian

doi:10.4067/s0717-92272016000400002

Salud mental y calidad de sueño en estudiantes de ocho facultades de medicina humana del Perú

Author(s)

Vilchez‐Cornejo, Jennifer

Universidad Nacional de Ucayali

Quiñones-Laveriano, Dante

Universidad Ricardo Palma

Failoc‐Rojas, Virgilio E.

Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruíz Gallo

Acevedo-Villar, Tania

Universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga

Larico Calla, Gabriel Leonardo

Universidad Peruana Unión

Mucching‐Toscano, Sergio

Federico Villarreal National University

Torres‐Roman, J. Smith

Universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga

Aquino-Núñez, Priscila Tereza

Universidad Ricardo Palma

Córdova-De la Cruz, Jhomar

Daniel Alcides Carrión National University

Huerta‐Rosario, Andrely

Federico Villarreal National University

Espinoza-Amaya, Juan Jesús

Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión

Palacios-Vargas, Luis Alberto

Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión

Díaz-Vélez, Cristian

Universidad de San Martín de Porres

Date Issued

1 de diciembre de 2016

Type

Article

Volume

54

Issue

4

Series/Report No.

Revista chilena de neuro-psiquiatría

Start Page

272

End Page

281

DOI

10.4067/s0717-92272016000400002

ISSN

0034-7388

0717-9227

Abstract

The quality of sleep refers to the fact that we sleep well at night and daytime functioning. Thus, influences health and quality of life. Sleep loss is one of the most striking problem of modern society especially in medical students. This is related to the constant academic demands causing mental health problems and high levels of stress. Methods: A cross-sectional study. We evaluated 1,040 medical students in 8 universities of Peru from the first to the sixth year of study. Of these, 892 surveys were used. Mental health were evaluated according to the scale of Depression, Anxiety and Stress (DASS-21) and "poor sleepers" students were established with a score 5 according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Results: It was found that 693 (77.69%) students were poor sleepers. About mental health was found that 290 (32.51%) suffered from depression, 472 (52.91%) of anxiety and 309 (34.64%) stress. A significant association (p < 0.05) was found between poor sleep quality and female sex (OR = 1.13, CI = 1.05 to 1.21); depression (OR = 1.23, CI = 1,15-1,31); anxiety (OR = 1.32, CI = 1.23 to 1.43); and stress (OR = 1.26, CI = 1.19 to 1.35). Conclusion: We observed a high frequency of poor sleepers in medical students from eight universities of Peru. The poor quality of sleep was associated with anxiety, depression and stress in students of second and third year, respectively.