ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Medical students' attitudes toward sleeping pill usage: A cross-sectional study.
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- Poor sleep quality and daytime sleepiness in medical students: role of late bedtimes.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2025Article
- Factors Associated With the Use of Over-the-Counter Sleep Aids Among Jazan University Students.Cureus · 2024Article
- Sleep Quality and its Daytime Effects among University Students in the UAE.Oman medical journal · 2024Article
- Exogenous Melatonin Use in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Assessment of Sleeping Disorders, Characteristics, and Sleeping Medication Use Among Pharmacy Students in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023Article
- Sleep quality among undergraduate medical students in Rwanda: a comparative study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Medical students experience significant stress, which may interfere with their sleeping routines; consequently, they are at a higher risk of misusing sleeping pills. Therefore, this cross-sectional convenience sampling study aims to evaluate medical students' attitudes toward the usage of sleeping pills, as well as the prevalence of their misuse and the associated factors. A self-administered online questionnaire survey was completed by 338 medical students at the College of Medicine of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Of 338 participants, 84 (24.85%) reported using sleeping pills. The prevalence of sleeping pill misuse was 26.63% (
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