Department of Community and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
J Clin Sleep Med. 2015 Jan 15;11(1):69-74. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.4370.
Medical students carry a large academic load which could potentially contribute to poor sleep quality above and beyond that already experienced by modern society. In this global literature review of the medical students' sleep experience, we find that poor sleep is not only common among medical students, but its prevalence is also higher than in non-medical students and the general population. Several factors including medical students' attitudes, knowledge of sleep, and academic demands have been identified as causative factors, but other potential mechanisms are incompletely understood. A better understanding about the etiology of sleep problems in medical trainees is essential if we hope to improve the overall quality of medical students' lives, including their academic performance. Sleep self-awareness and general knowledge appear insufficient in many studied cohorts, so increasing education for students might be one beneficial intervention. We conclude that there is ample evidence for a high prevalence of the problem, and research in this area should now expand towards initiatives to improve general sleep education for medical students, identify students at risk, and target them with programs to improve sleep.
医学生的学业负担很重，这可能导致他们的睡眠质量比现代社会中的其他人更差。在对医学生睡眠体验的全球文献回顾中，我们发现睡眠质量差不仅在医学生中很常见，而且其患病率也高于非医学生和普通人群。一些因素，包括医学生的态度、睡眠知识和学业要求，已被确定为致病因素，但其他潜在机制尚不完全清楚。如果我们希望提高医学生的整体生活质量，包括他们的学业成绩，那么就必须更好地了解医学生睡眠问题的病因。在许多研究队列中，睡眠自我意识和一般知识似乎都不足，因此增加学生的教育可能是一种有益的干预措施。我们得出的结论是，有充分的证据表明这个问题的普遍性很高，因此该领域的研究现在应该扩展到为医学生提供全面的睡眠教育、识别有风险的学生，并针对他们开展改善睡眠的项目。
