SLEEP DISORDER AND SYMPTOMATOLOGY AMONG MEDICAL AND NURSING STUDENTS

This study reports on the quantity and quality of sleep disorder among a normal" group of 139 medical and nursing students. About 20 per cent of the total population reported a disturbance of sleep. Sleep disorder data was also correlated with a variety of psychiatric symptoms reported by the same group. The wide discrepancy between the medical and nursing students for both sleep disorder and other symptoms was discussed. This questionnaire study proved to be only marginally helpful in differentiating a subgroup of nursing school dropouts from the nursing students who stayed in school. A past or current history of psychiatric treatment turned out not to correlate with any of the sleep disorder or other symptom variables. © 1969."