Excessive daytime sleepiness in medical studens from a university located in the alto tietê region

• Autor(a) principal: Ortega , Ádrison Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Buratti , Aline, Silva , Jaqueline Pereira da, Anselmo , Amanda Toledo Rodrigues, Souza Junior , Gilberto de, Custódio , Cássia Regina da Silva Neves, Fidalgo , Vania Christina Garofalo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Debates em Psiquiatria (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistardp.org.br/revista/article/view/331
• topic: Sonolência; qualidade de vida; estudantes de medicina; Somnolence; quality of life; medical students

Introduction: The academic routine of medical students can interfere with their sleep-wake cycle and contribute to the development of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). This condition impairs the individual’s quality of life and reasoning capacity, in addition to causing fatigue and risk of accidents. This fact points to the importance of expanding studies on the topic and investigating its prevalence among medical students, which often have an overload of activities. Objective: To assess the frequency of EDS among undergraduate medical students, as well as to identify the chance of occurrence of EDS symptoms at different stages of the graduation course. Method: The Fletcher and Luckett Questionnaire for the assessment of sleep disorders was applied to students attending years 1 to 4 at a private medical school. The study was cross-sectional and quantitative, and the data collected were analyzed using the R software version 3.5.1 (R Core Team, 2018). Results: The prevalence of at least mild symptoms (score >1) was observed in 44% of the students, and 6% had a daily score close to 2, corresponding to a moderate degree of severity, showing signs of EDS, especially among women, who showed intensified symptoms.Conclusion: The overload of acti viti es throughout the medical curriculum may signifi cantly aff ect the students’ sleep-wake cycle, resulti ng in the onset of EDS symptoms that, once identi fi ed, should be followed by acti ons to prevent them and to warn students about their risks.