Comparative assessment of the relationship between mental health and insomnia of medical students, working and non-working as nurses

Abstract

   Objective: to compare the severity of the relationship between mental state and insomnia of medical students working and not working as nurses.   Materials and methods: research methods — sociological, psychometric, statistical. The study was conducted at the Bashkir State Medical University (BSMU) from February to April 2022. Data collection was carried out using Google Forms. Study group №1 — 172 students working as nurses. The proportion of males is 41 % (70/172), females — 59 % (102/172). The average age was 21-23 years. Study group № 1 — 66 non-working students. Among the studied 16.7 % (11/66) men, 83.3 % (55/66) women. The average age is 21-23 years. SCL-90-R (Symptom Check List-90-Revised), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used as methods. Statistical processing was carried out using Microsoft Excel, STATISTICA 10, Spearman correlation coefficient, U — Mann-whitney test.   Results: the degree of manifestation of insomnia in the study group № 1 and № 2 positively correlates with both all SCL-90-R scales and second-order indices. when comparing the studied groups, it was found that the mental state of non-working students is more unstable, the quality of sleep is worse.   Conclusions: the relationship between the mental state and insomniac disorders in medical students, both working as nurses and not working, has been established. we assume that students who do not work as nurses have low adaptive abilities, as a result of which their mental state is accompanied by more pronounced insomniac disorders.