Impacto de la calidad del sueño sobre el rendimiento académico. Estudiantes Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Católica de Cuenca. Cuenca-Ecuador. 2022-2023

Abstract

Background: Sleep is involved in several functions, such as attention, psychomotor development, and the capacity to consolidate knowledge. It has also been demonstrated that healthcare students have poor sleeping quality. Objective: To determine the impact of sleeping quality on academic performance in students of the Catholic University of Cuenca's medical school. Period October-February 2022-2023. Methodology: Non-experimental, cross-sectional correlational-analytical study. The relationship between sleeping quality and academic performance was analyzed among students at the Catholic University of Cuenca with 341 participants. The Pittsburgh survey and average observation were applied. Excel 2016 and the statistical program SPSSv.22 were used for the analysis. Results: The average age of the participants was 25.5 years. Females were 60.6%. . The most frequent cycle was the tenth cycle, with a percentage of 19.9%. The single population was 98.2%. Poor sleeping quality had 82.1%; while 56.9% of the students had medium/low academic performance. No statistically significant relationship was found between sleep quality and academic performance OR = 1.06 (95% CI: 0.82-1.36) and p-value = 0.627. Conclusions and Relevance: No statistically significant association was found between sleep quality and academic performance in students of the medical school at the Catholic University of Cuenca.