The prevalence of sleep deprivation and its impact among medical officers in a tertiary hospital, a cross-sectional study from Malaysia.

ABSTRACT: Sleep deprivation (SD), defined as an inability to get a minimum of 7 hours of regular sleep at night is a serious health problem that impacts the performance of medical professionals. This study aims to determine the impact of sleep deprivation on perceived performance among medical officers (MOs). A cross-sectional study design involved 231 MOs from six disciplines in Hospital Tuanku Ja'afar, a tertiary center in the south of Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was introduced in the English language. The questionnaire involved the sociodemographic characteristics; job-related factors, and the Sleep Deprivation Impact Scale (SDIS). The SDIS is a 12-question scale, rated on a 5-point Likert scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. A higher SDIS score reflected a higher impac

SUBMITTER: Daher AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361673 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature