Impact of Insomnia on Academic Performance Among Undergraduate Medical Students of Chandka Medical College (Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University) Larkana

Abstract

Objective: To assess the frequency of insomnia among medical students, secondary to evaluate the impact of insomnia on their education performance. A valid Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) was applied to assess the frequency of insomnia and the GPA was computed for academic performance.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Chandaka Medical College Larkana from September 2014 to February 2015.

Materials and Methods: In which 248 undergraduate medical students (First to Fourth years MBBS) were selected through a stratified random sampling method. In the current study, the frequency of insomnia among medical students 96(38.7%) was analyzed. In addition, the significant association has seemed between insomnia and academic performance (p<0.016) and frequency of insomnia was observed more in female students. In the current study, a high frequency of insomnia was observed among the medical students, as well as, poor academic performance was observed in insomniac students. In this regard, to improve sleep, there is a great need for good health education and awareness programs to improve the quality of future health personnel.

Results: Our study consist of 248 subjects, each batch (1st year to 4th year) contain equal participants, while female 162(65.3%) was observed high in respect to male 86(34.7%) in all batches. Graph-I

All the participating undergraduate medical students mean age was 20.15 ± 1.413 years and the range of age was 17 to 24 years. Scale GPA 4.0 was used to measure the Academic performance of subjects, therefore 166 (66.9%) subjects secured good performance while 82(33.1%) subjects obtained low GPA (poor performance).

Conclusion: In the current study shows a high frequency of insomnia in medical students of CMC (1^st year to 4^th year MBBS) with multiple factors affecting sleep. The frequency of insomnia even high in female students. Insomniac students are found to have an impact on their GPAs(academic performance).