Abstract
Sleep pattern and behavior plays an important role in personality. It becomes very essential in profession where decision making has to be precise. Health care profession is always a challenging filed, with evolving science every day the people in this profession are at risk of sleep deprivation either due to work schedule or stressors. Hence sleep pattern study in their study period will help in predicting pattern developed in sleep. 261 subjects participated in study constituting self-reporting questionnaire which included sleepiness, acute insomnia and chronic insomnia, activities in bed and sleep environment responses was obtained which determined life style habits and individual sleep pattern and behavior 40% of study participants had sleep onset delay more than 30minutes and among them 4% of participants needed pharmacological intervention. On comparison among different phases of course and interns using ANOVA there was no statistical significant difference in sleep patterns but interns had poor sleep quality as per the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) criteria. The study indicated altered sleep patterns in the group of interns and in first year students of the course though it was not statistically significant.
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