A study on Impact of Insomnia Among Medical Students of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgystan

Insomnia is a sleep disorder which the person will have difficulty in falling asleep, staying asleep or maintaining sleep which can relatively influence their daily functioning leads to fatigue, irritability and less concentration Sleep is a essential thing for a person as it might affect the productivity resulting in loss of performance.If a person is not getting enough sleep he might suffer from irregularities in neural development, learning memory, metabolic and cardiovascular functions.The People having high workload like students, people working for long period of time in a day are most likely to get affected by Insomnia.Insomnia is a common sleep disorder.With Insomnia, Person may have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or getting good quality sleep.This happens even if you have the time and the right environment to sleep well.Insomnia can get in the way of your daily activities and may make you feel sleepy during the day.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the prevalance of insomnia among medical students over a period of one month, in the month of January in Jalal-abad State university, Kyrgyzstan.The questionnaire in the study was used an online survey platform.The Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS-8) and socio-demographic information were used to collect the information of the respondents.Result: In the study, majority of the respondents 48.3% were from 3 rd year.Regarding age groups, those aged 21-25 make up the largest portion (55.2%) in our study.In terms of gender, male slightly outnumber females (51.7% vs. 48.3%).The prevalence of insomnia was 27.6% (32/116) indicated that their sleep patterns were not normal, suggesting symptoms of insomnia.age (p=0.021),sex (p=0.017) was found to have correlation with insomnia.Conlusion: Approximately one-third of the medical students experience insomnia.There should be more awareness of this association as early recognition and treatment may have a favorable inuence on academic performance.The sleep problem in the respondents reported more often in students who experience daily stress which might affect their academic activities.