Sleep quality and sleep disorders in medical students

sleep and its characteristics are an important subject of scientific research both in the field of humanities and in the field of medical and biological knowledge. Of particular interest are studies of the health status of medical students in the context of sleep and its disorders. Existing studies convincingly show that medical students have sleep problems, which negatively affects their academic performance. This paper aims to study the quality of sleep and sleep disorders in medical students. A total of 133 junior medical students with an average age of 20.69±4.09 years were surveyed online using the Sleep Quality Questionnaire (Nikolaev et al., 2024). It was found that more than half of them (60.15%) have a disrupted night sleep schedule, and every third sleep duration (33.08%) does not reach the physiological norm. From 3% to 46% of students have sleep disorders in the form of parasomnias. It was also found that the quality of their sleep is closely related to indicators of physical and psychological well-being. In this regard, it is obvious that there is a need not only to more widely inform medical students about the need to maintain a responsible attitude to such an important physiological function as sleep. No less important is the organization of preventive measures aimed at improving the psychological well-being of students by providing accessible psychological assistance at the place of study, including anonymously.

sleep quality, sleep disorders, parasomnias, stress, health, medical students