Assessment of Sleep Quality and Mental Health Status Among 1st Year MBBS Students of a Tertiary Care Hospital in West Bengal: A Cross-sectional Observational Study
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Objectives: To assess the sleep pattern and mental health status among 1st medical students. - To find out any relationship between them. Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Subjects: Apparently healthy newly admitted 1st year MBBS student of Bankura Sammilani Medical College aged between 18-25 years of age. Methodology: After obtaining institutional ethical clearance and written informed consent from study participants, this study was conducted over a period of 3 months. The students with pre-existing mental health disorders, sleep apnoea and not willing to give consent were excluded from the study. Sleep quality and mental health status were measured by administering Pittsberg Sleep Quality Index and DASS-21 scale respectively. Results: A total of 133 students responded to the questionnaires with mean age of 20.09 ± 1.33 years and 60-40% male-female distribution. The mean PSQI score was found to be 5.09±2.76 (Score ≥ 5 indicates poor quality sleep pattern). The mean score for depression, anxiety and stress from Dass 21 score indicate mild anxiety, moderate depression and mild stress among them. Furthermore, Spearman rank correlation showed a moderate correlation between sleep quality and mental health among the students. Conclusion: Our study may be helpful to assess and screen the medical students having altered sleep pattern and mental health issues at the earliest.
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