Prevalence and associated factors of snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness among medical students in Faculty Of Medicine And Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 2020.

Aizam, Fatennajwa and P. Kanapathy, Malini and Syann, Alycia Tan Ee (2020) Prevalence and associated factors of snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness among medical students in Faculty Of Medicine And Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 2020. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness have always been one of the major health problems concerning the world population. Snoring is a risk to the population as it may lead to cardiovascular diseases whereas excessive daytime sleepiness leads to road trafficaccidents. The general objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness respectively among medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2020. In addition, this study also determines the association between gender, body mass index (BMI), obesity and sleep quality with the prevalence of snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness respectively. This study will be conducted from 27th April 2020 until 28th of September 2020. A cross-sectional study will be used to carry out this study. The data for this research will be collected through online questionnaires from the 17th August 2020 until 25th August 2020, and will be distributed to the medical students of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia via their preferred social platform. Simple random sampling method will be used to get the responses in this study. In this study, excessive daytime sleepiness of the respondents will be assessed by using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS); snoring will be assessed by using the Berlin Questionnaire scoring; and sleep quality will be assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms Norafizah Radzuan
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2023 07:14
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2023 07:14
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1180

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