Anxiety, depression and sleep quality in medical students, UNAN-Managua, June - August, 2021

Abstract

In this times, anxiety, depression and bad quality sleep, are mental health problems that affect medical students worldwide and present a risk to their personal and professional development. The objective of this work was to correlate anxiety, depression and sleep quality in medical students in 5th and 6th year, from the Medical Sciences Faculty at UNAN-Managua and determine the prevalence of these components in light of the demographics of the learning physicians. To achieve this, Pittsburgh’s sleep quality index was used, as well as Beck’s Anxiety and Depression Inventory, and a demographic questionary, 76 students participated in the study, 53% from 5th year and 47% from 6th year, 57% females and 43% males, with an average age of 22 years. The prevalence of anxiety was 92%, depressions 81% and bad sleep quality 98%. A positive moderate correlation was found between sleep quality and depression (0,515), likewise between sleep quality and anxiety (0,598), and a high positive correlation between anxiety and depression (0,709). Concluding that an important percentage of students suffer symptoms of these disorders and that the presence of one of these components affects the apparition of other.

Key words: Medical student, anxiety, depression, mental health