1. Night shifts, sleep deprivation, and attention performance in medical students
- Author
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Isabel Pérez-Olmos and Milcíades Ibáñez-Pinilla
- Subjects
Gerontology ,Adult ,Male ,Students, Medical ,undergraduate medical students ,Adolescent ,education ,Concentration indices ,Colombia ,Cohort Studies ,Young Adult ,Work Schedule Tolerance ,medicine ,Humans ,Attention ,Longitudinal Studies ,Prospective Studies ,Young adult ,Prospective cohort study ,nightshift work ,Performance in Medical Students ,General Medicine ,Sleep in non-human animals ,attention performance ,Sleep deprivation ,Nocturnal sleep ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Night Shift Work ,Clinical psychology ,Cohort study ,Research Article - Abstract
Objectives: To determine attention performance of medical students after sleep deprivation due to night shift work. Methods: Prospective cohort design. All seventh, eighth and ninth semester students were invited to participate (n= 209). The effectiveness and concentration indices (d2 Test for attention, dependent variable) from 180 students at 3 evaluations during the semester were compared. Eighth and ninth semester students underwent their second evaluation after a night shift. The independent variables were nocturnal sleep measurements. Results: No differences in nocturnal sleep hours during the previous week (p=0.966), sleep deprivation (p=0.703) or effectiveness in the d2 Test (p=0.428) were found between the groups at the beginning of the semester. At the beginning and the end of the semester, the d2 Test results were not different between groups (p=0.410, p=0.394) respectively. The second evaluation showed greater sleep deprivation in students with night shift work (p
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- 2014