Impacts of sleep quality in mental health of medical students: a systematic review
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Medical Students, Sleep, Mental Health, Medical EducationAbstract
Introduction. The exposure of medical students to an intense rhythm of academic activities modifies daily habits that influence sleep and vigil regulation. These changes also impact on mental health and on academical development, which stimulates the interest in this field of medical education. Objective. To evaluate the impact of sleep quality in the mental health of medical students. Method. This is a systematic review of literature, the inclusion criteria were cross-sectional studies, written in Portuguese or in English and with open access. Articles that weren’t found in their totality or published before 2017 were excluded from this review. The searches were conducted on PubMed/Medline, Virtual Health Library (VHL) and SciELO with descriptors found in DeCS/MeSH, yet, to compose the literature, references of the articles fully read were searched. Furthermore, articles had their methodological quality analyzed by a quality assessment to minimize the risk of bias. Results. In total, 22 articles were selected to compose this review, in which the variables associated with bad sleep quality were depression, anxiety and stress. However, the diversities of methods between studies and the low representativeness of the population studied were limitations of the evidence. Conclusion. Medical students with bad sleep quality are more likely to have depression, anxiety or, above all, stress. Consequently, measures to improve sleep quality aiming the promotion and the prevention on mental health and greater adaptation to academic activities.
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