Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2022 Aug 18:2022:8645183.
doi: 10.1155/2022/8645183. eCollection 2022.

Awareness of Medical Students toward Circadian Rhythm and Sleep Disorder Based on Biomedical Diagnosis

Asma Alanazi  1   2 , Haifa Alhawas  1   2 , Munirah Aldossari  1 , Dana Almutairi  1 , Dana Almatroudi  1 , Afnan Alenazi  1 , Leen Almadhi  1 , Maram Albalawi  3
Affiliations

Awareness of Medical Students toward Circadian Rhythm and Sleep Disorder Based on Biomedical Diagnosis

Asma Alanazi et al. Biomed Res Int. .

Retraction in

Abstract

Background: 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.

Methods: 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.

Results: 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 p value = 0.0057. The specific interest in sleep medicine had a significant association with knowledge and attitude, p value of 0.0522 and 0.0059, respectively.

Conclusion: This study concluded that medical students possess inadequate knowledge regarding sleep medicine, yet they have a positive attitude towards it.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
General attitude of the students toward sleep medicine.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Harvard Health Publishing. Sleep and mental health. November 2020, https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Sleep-and-mental-health.
    1. Wells M. E., Overton A. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Primary Health Care . 2014;4(158):p. 2167.
    1. Abdulghani H. M., Alrowais N. A., Bin-Saad N. S., Al-Subaie N. M., Haji A. M., Alhaqwi A. I. Sleep disorder among medical students: relationship to their academic performance. Medical Teacher . 2012;34(sup1):S37–S41. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.656749. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Almeneessier A. S., BaHammam A. S. Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World . Springer, Cham; 2019. Sleep medicine and sleep disorders in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world; pp. 1–6. - DOI
    1. Alazzam M. B., Tayyib N., Alshawwa S. Z., Ahmed M. Nursing care systematization with case-based reasoning and artificial intelligence. 2022;2022:9. doi: 10.1155/2022/1959371.1959371 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

Publication types