Sleep pattern and work performance among internship nursing students

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Aim: The aim of this study was to assess sleep pattern and work performance among internship nursing students.

This cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on a sample of 200 internship nursing students during their work in Ain Shams university hospitals.

Methodology: Data collection tools included an interview questionnaire sheet, which included age, sex, marital status and socioeconomic status.

And Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) as an instrument used to measure the quality and patterns of sleep in adults.

It differentiates "Poor" from "Good" sleep by measuring seven domains: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, and sleep disturbances, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction over the last month.

The client self rates each of these seven areas of sleep.

Observation checklist, to assess quality of nurses' performance.

Results: The results clarified that most of the study sample were females (71.5%) whose age 21 years (64%) and 13% of them were married.

It also indicated that 4% of the study sample took medications to help them fall asleep and 37% of them had trouble staying awake while driving or engaging in social activities during the past month, while 36.5% of them didn't have troubles staying awake while engaging in social activities.

On the other hand 90% of the study sample has Poor pattern of sleep quality with a mean 9.4, while only 10% of them had good sleep pattern.

The study demonstrated that 76% of the study sample had satisfactory work performance in supporting patient's anxiety and 69% of them had satisfactory level in speaking with understandable language to the patient, while 88.5% had unsatisfactory work performance as a psychosocial individual in the task of using opportunities for patient teaching.

The study also illustrated the relation between sleep pattern and work performance of the study sample, it indicated that about 86% of the study sample had poor sleep quality and unsatisfactory work performance.

The study concluded that internship nursing students had poor sleep quality and unsatisfactory level of work performance regardless their gender.

Moreover, the major impairment in their performance appeared in the psychosocial dimension.

.Overall, the effect of poor quality of sleep negatively affected concentration, working memory and executive functions, also it affects communication with other people as colleagues and patients.-