Abstract

GARCIA GASCON, Ángel et al. Some biological variables related to sleep dysfunctions in first year medicine students. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.8, pp.978-983. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive study of 110 first year students of the medicine career was carried out in the Medical Sciences faculty No. 2 in Santiago de Cuba, from January to July, 2014, with the objective of determining some biological variables that could be related to the main sleep dysfunctions. The information was statistically processed, with the use of the percentage as summary measure and the chi squared test to evaluate the possible association between variables. In the series it was obtained that the most frequent sleep dysfunctions were insomnia, the snoring and nightmares, with prevalence in the females; nevertheless, in most of the students the electroencephalogram was normal

Keywords : students; sleep dysfunctions; insomnia; snores; nightmares; biological variables; medicine career.

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