Homaira Iqbal Khan, Ayesha Arshad, Ramzan M, Meez Irshad M Rameez, Aamir Furqan.
Effect of Sleep Pattern on Academic Performance of Medical Students (A multi-center study).
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;16(2):691-4.

Objective: To investigate the association between sleep and academic performance of medical students in medical colleges of Punjab. Methodology: This cross sectional study was conducted on medical students studying in king Edward Medical Colleges, Lahore and Nishtar Medical College, Multan. Duration of study was one years from February 2016 to February 2017. Outcome variable of our study was academic performance; GPA and class attendance. All collected data was entered in statistical software SPSS software version 22 and analyzed. Mean and SD was calculated for quantitative data like age. Frequency and percentages were calculated for qualitative data, gender, year of study, sleeping hours, percentage of marks obtained and percentage of attendance. Post stratification regression analysis was applied to see association of variables. P value <= 0.05 was considered as significant. Results: Among a total number of 246 students of both gender , 55.7% (n=137) were males and 44.3% (n=109) females. The results showed strongly significant association of percentage of marks for the sleeping hours (p=0.000) except age (p=0.465), year of study (p=0.256) and gender (p=0.965). Conclusion: Our results concluded that majority of medical students in studied centers had suboptimal durations of sleep. Adequate sleep is positively associated with student class attendance and percentage of marks obtained.

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