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Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Medicine and healthcare professions are prestigious and valued careers and, at the same time, demanding, challenging, and arduous jobs. Medical and allied health professions students, experiencing a stressful academic and clinical workload, may suffer from sleep disturbances. In Iran, several studie...

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Autores principales: Khaksarian, Mojtaba, Behzadifar, Masoud, Behzadifar, Meysam, Jahanpanah, Firuzeh, Guglielmi, Ottavia, Garbarino, Sergio, Lanteri, Paola, Re, Tania Simona, Zerbetto, Riccardo, Maldonado Briegas, Juan José, Riccò, Matteo, Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033482
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17031011
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author Khaksarian, Mojtaba
Behzadifar, Masoud
Behzadifar, Meysam
Jahanpanah, Firuzeh
Guglielmi, Ottavia
Garbarino, Sergio
Lanteri, Paola
Re, Tania Simona
Zerbetto, Riccardo
Maldonado Briegas, Juan José
Riccò, Matteo
Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
author_facet Khaksarian, Mojtaba
Behzadifar, Masoud
Behzadifar, Meysam
Jahanpanah, Firuzeh
Guglielmi, Ottavia
Garbarino, Sergio
Lanteri, Paola
Re, Tania Simona
Zerbetto, Riccardo
Maldonado Briegas, Juan José
Riccò, Matteo
Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
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description Medicine and healthcare professions are prestigious and valued careers and, at the same time, demanding, challenging, and arduous jobs. Medical and allied health professions students, experiencing a stressful academic and clinical workload, may suffer from sleep disturbances. In Iran, several studies have been conducted to explore the prevalence rate among medical and healthcare professions students. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to quantitatively and rigorously summarize the existing scholarly literature, providing the decision- and policy-makers and educators with an updated, evidence-based synthesis. Only studies utilizing a reliable psychometric instrument, such as the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), were included, in order to have comparable measurements and estimates. Seventeen investigations were retained in the present systematic review and meta-analysis, totaling a sample of 3586 students. Studies were conducted between 2008 and 2018 and reported an overall rate of sleep disturbances of 58% (95% confidence interval or CI 45–70). No evidence of publication bias could be found, but formal analyses on determinants of sleep disturbances could not be run due to the dearth of information that could be extracted from studies. Poor sleep is highly prevalent among Iranian medical and healthcare professions students. Based on the limitations of the present study, high-quality investigations are urgently needed to better capture the determinants of poor sleep quality among medical and healthcare professions students, given the importance and the implications of such a topic.
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spelling pubmed-70379182020-03-10 Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature Khaksarian, Mojtaba Behzadifar, Masoud Behzadifar, Meysam Jahanpanah, Firuzeh Guglielmi, Ottavia Garbarino, Sergio Lanteri, Paola Re, Tania Simona Zerbetto, Riccardo Maldonado Briegas, Juan José Riccò, Matteo Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Medicine and healthcare professions are prestigious and valued careers and, at the same time, demanding, challenging, and arduous jobs. Medical and allied health professions students, experiencing a stressful academic and clinical workload, may suffer from sleep disturbances. In Iran, several studies have been conducted to explore the prevalence rate among medical and healthcare professions students. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to quantitatively and rigorously summarize the existing scholarly literature, providing the decision- and policy-makers and educators with an updated, evidence-based synthesis. Only studies utilizing a reliable psychometric instrument, such as the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), were included, in order to have comparable measurements and estimates. Seventeen investigations were retained in the present systematic review and meta-analysis, totaling a sample of 3586 students. Studies were conducted between 2008 and 2018 and reported an overall rate of sleep disturbances of 58% (95% confidence interval or CI 45–70). No evidence of publication bias could be found, but formal analyses on determinants of sleep disturbances could not be run due to the dearth of information that could be extracted from studies. Poor sleep is highly prevalent among Iranian medical and healthcare professions students. Based on the limitations of the present study, high-quality investigations are urgently needed to better capture the determinants of poor sleep quality among medical and healthcare professions students, given the importance and the implications of such a topic. MDPI 2020-02-05 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7037918/ /pubmed/32033482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17031011 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Khaksarian, Mojtaba
Behzadifar, Masoud
Behzadifar, Meysam
Jahanpanah, Firuzeh
Guglielmi, Ottavia
Garbarino, Sergio
Lanteri, Paola
Re, Tania Simona
Zerbetto, Riccardo
Maldonado Briegas, Juan José
Riccò, Matteo
Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature
title Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature
title_full Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature
title_fullStr Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature
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title_short Sleep Disturbances Rate among Medical and Allied Health Professions Students in Iran: Implications from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature
title_sort sleep disturbances rate among medical and allied health professions students in iran: implications from a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033482
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17031011
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