Daytime sleepiness and sleep quality among Malaysian medical students

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-110

  Zailinawati, Abu Hassan ^a   Teng, C L ^a   Chung, Y C ^a   Teow, T L ^a   Lee, P N ^a   Jagmohni, K S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Daytime sleepiness; Medical students; Sleep quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL STRESS; NIGHT SLEEP; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; TIME;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77449102130     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Lyznicki JM, Doege TC, Davis RM, Williams MA. Sleepiness, driving, and motor vehicle crashes. JAMA 1998; 279: 1908-13.
2. Howard SK, Gaba DM, Rosekind MR, Zarcone VP. The risks and implications of excessive daytime sleepiness in resident physicians. Acad Med 2002; 77: 1019-25.
3. Owens JA. Sleep loss and fatigue in medical training. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2001; 7: 411-18.
4. Pallos H, Yamada N, Doi Y, Okawa M. Sleep habits, prevalence and burden of sleep disturbances among Japanese graduate students. Sleep Biol Rhythms 2004; 2: 37-42.
5. Rodrigues RN, Viegas CA, Abreu E Silva AA, Tavares P. Daytime sleepiness and academic performance in medical students. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2002; 60: 6-11.
6. Hidalgo MP, Caumo W. Sleep disturbances associated with minor psychiatric disorders in medical students. Neurol Sci 2002; 23: 35-9.
7. Veldi M, Aluoja A, Vasar V. Sleep quality and more common sleep-related problems in medical students. Sleep Med 2005; 6(3): 269-75.
8. Johns MW. A new method for measuring daytime sleepiness: the Epworth sleepiness scale. Sleep 1991; 14: 540-6.
9. Goldberg DP, Williams P. A User's Guide to the General Health Questionnaire. 1988. Windsor, UK: nferNelson.
10. Goldberg DP, Oldehinkel T, Ormel J. Why GHQ threshold varies from one place to another. Psychol Med 1998; 28: 915-21.
11. Pilcher JJ, Ginter DR, Sadowsky B. Sleep quality versus sleep quantity: Relationships between sleep and measures of health, well-being and sleepiness in college students. J Psychosom Res 1997; 42: 583-96.
12. Kamil MA, Teng CL, Hassan SA. Snoring and breathing pauses during sleep in the Malaysian population. Respirology 2007; 12: 375-80.
13. Bixler EO, Vgontzas AN, Lin HM, Calhoun SL, Vela-Bueno A, Kales A. Excessive daytime sleepiness in a general population sample: The role of sleep alpnea, age, obesity, diabetes, and depression. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005; 90: 4510-15.
14. Edinger JD, Sampson WS. A primary care "friendly" cognitive behavioral insomnia therapy. Sleep 2003; 2: 177-82.
15. Tsai LL, Li SP. Sleep education in college: a preliminary study. Perceptual & Motor Skills 2004; 99: 837-48.
16. Papp KK, Stoller EP, Sage P, et al. The effects of sleep loss and fatigue on resident-physicians: a multi-institutional, mixed-method study. Acad Med 2004; 79: 394-406.
17. Resident Duty Hour Language. http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/dutyHours/dh- Lang703.pdf. 2003. Accessed on 5th November 2007.
18. Browne BJ, Van Susteren T, Onsager DR, Simpson D, Salaymeh B, Condon RE. Influence of sleep deprivation on learning among surgical house staff and medical students. Surgery 1994; 115: 604-10.
19. Puvanendran K, Venkatramani J, Jain A, Farid M. Sleep deprivation in junior doctors-house officers in Singapore. Ind Health 2005; 43: 129-32.
20. Gomes AA, Tavares J, Asevedo MH. Sleep-wake patterns and academic performance in university students. www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00002200. htm Education-line 2002. Accessed on 5th November 2007.