Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Biomed Res Int. 2022 Aug 18;2022:8645183. doi: 10.1155/2022/8645183. eCollection 2022.
Sleep disorders affect an individual's mental and physical health and vice versa. Sleep medicine is underrecognized as a specialty; therefore, many sleep disorders go undiagnosed. This study is aimed at assessing the knowledge of medical students toward circadian neuroscience and sleep disorder based on biomedical diagnosis.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in both male and female medical colleges from the third to the sixth year. A self-administered structured questionnaire consisting of sociodemographic data and the Assessment of Sleep Knowledge in Medical Education (ASKME) survey assessed the students' general knowledge and attitude towards sleep disorder and sleep medicine. Chi-square/Fisher exact tests were used to analyse the participants' knowledge level toward specific sociodemographic data. Also, for two-level continuous variables, the Wilcoxon two-sample test was used.
The total number of participants was 296, with 154 female and 142 male participants. The prevalence of inadequate knowledge was considerable with 96.62% of students, compared to adequate knowledge with only 3.38%. The students' attitude to sleep medicine was negative 14.53% and positive among 85.47%. We found that gender was significantly associated with attitude with a value = 0.0057. The specific interest in sleep medicine had a significant association with knowledge and attitude, value of 0.0522 and 0.0059, respectively.
This study concluded that medical students possess inadequate knowledge regarding sleep medicine, yet they have a positive attitude towards it.
睡眠障碍会影响个人的身心健康，反之亦然。睡眠医学作为一个专业尚未得到充分认识；因此，许多睡眠障碍未得到诊断。本研究旨在评估医学生基于生物医学诊断对昼夜神经科学和睡眠障碍的知识。
这是一项在第三至第六年的男女医学院进行的横断面研究。采用自我管理的结构化问卷，包括社会人口统计学数据和医学教育睡眠知识评估（ASKME）调查，评估学生对睡眠障碍和睡眠医学的一般知识和态度。卡方/Fisher 确切检验用于分析参与者对特定社会人口统计学数据的知识水平。此外，对于两级连续变量，使用 Wilcoxon 两样本检验。
共有 296 名参与者，其中 154 名女性和 142 名男性。与仅有 3.38%的学生相比，学生知识不足的比例相当高，达到 96.62%。学生对睡眠医学的态度是消极的占 14.53%，积极的占 85.47%。我们发现，性别与态度显著相关， 值为 0.0057。对睡眠医学的特殊兴趣与知识和态度有显著关联， 值分别为 0.0522 和 0.0059。
本研究得出结论，医学生对睡眠医学的知识不足，但对其持积极态度。
