TO COMPARE SLEEP QUALITY AMONG BASIC SCIENCES and CLINICAL POST GRADUATES TRAINEES WORKING AT TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITALS AND ALLIED COLLEGE

Objective: To compare sleep quality among clinical faculties and post graduates trainees working at tertiary care teaching hospitals Lahore and basic sciences trainees selected from allied colleges.Study Design: Comparative cross sectional study.Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted over period of three months, Jan 2018 to Apr 2018 in Mayo Hospital Lahore, Lady Atchison Hospital Lahore and King Edward Medical University Lahore.Patients and Methods: Post graduate trainees were evaluated during a time period of January 2018 to April 2018 after taking consent as per declaration of Helsinki. These were divided in two equal groups of clinical and Paraclinical faculties. All relevant data was collected by a validated questionnaire, Pittsburgh sleep quality Index (PSQI). It is used as tool for assessment of, subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, sleep disturbance, use of sleep medication and day-time sleepiness.Results: One hundred residents participated in study. Fifty residents were from clinical faculties departments of general medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, and obstetrics-gynecology. The Para clinical faculties consist of department of anatomy, physiology, forensic medicine, community medicine, biochemistry, pathology and microbiology. Among clinical group 36 are poor sleepers (PSQI >5) compared to 05 of non-clinical group. The difference was found significant (p