Healthy habits as possible sleep difficulty protectors in a Mexican national university’s medical students

Authors

  • Silvia Tafoya Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). a Psicóloga, Maestra en Psicología General Experimental.
  • María Jurado Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Psicóloga. Maestra en Psicología Clínica.
  • Norma Yépez Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Psicóloga. Maestra en Psicología Clínica.
  • Mariana Fouilloux Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Psicóloga, Maestra en Ciencias, campo Salud Mental Pública.
  • María Lara Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Facultad de Medicina, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Médico Psiquiatra, Doctora en Ciencias Médicas.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v74i3.2633

Keywords:

Healthy habits, sleep difficulties, medical students.

Abstract

Medical students have a high percentage of poor sleepers; more evidence on how health habits contribute to sleep better in this population is needed. Objectives: To identify the association of some health habits with presence/absence of sleep difficulties in medical freshmen. Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Participants: Medical students. Interventions: The presence/absence of sleep difficulties was assessed by three items from the Symptom Check List (SCL 90) in 572 medical students 18.6 year-old (SD±2.7) average, 37% men and 63% women. Sleep-related habits were determined by 18 items from the Nowack Stress Profile. Main outcome measures: Sleep habits. Results: Simple analyses showed that absence of sleep difficulties was associated with the "high promotion of rest sleep" (OR=0.15; CI95%=0.04-0.64) and "high risk prevention" (OR=0.59; CI95%=0.41-0.86). Conclusions: The "promotion of rest-sleep" was the least reported habit by students, but explained absence of sleep difficulties better than other health habits.

Downloads

Published

2013-09-16

Issue

Vol. 74 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Trabajos originales

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Silvia Tafoya, María Jurado, Norma Yépez, Mariana Fouilloux, María Lara

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Those authors who have publications with this magazine accept the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyrights and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to Creative Commons Attribution License that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and its first publication this magazine are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the version of the published work (eg, deposit it in an institutional electronic file or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this magazine is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work over the Internet (eg: in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which It can produce interesting exchanges and increase quotes from the published work. (See El efecto del acceso abierto ).

How to Cite

1.
Tafoya S, Jurado M, Yépez N, Fouilloux M, Lara M. Healthy habits as possible sleep difficulty protectors in a Mexican national university’s medical students. An Fac med [Internet]. 2013 Sep. 16 [cited 2024 Aug. 16];74(3):187-92. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/2633