Abstract
Background: Sleep is an important necessity in the human life. The majority of grown-ups require seven and a half to nine hours of sleep every night to work at their full capacity. Sleep deprivation is a common finding in students' academic life. Objectives: To assess the relation between sleep pattern and academic performance among Almaarefa University medical and pharmacy students in Riyadh.
Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Among 162 Medical and Pharm D students. In Almaarefa University, Riyadh. It was done by a questionnaire. Data was analyzed using (SPSS).
Results: Among the included students, Findings regarding the relation between gender and depth of sleep was statistically insignificant, showed that deep sleep is 43% among males and 28% among females was considered statistically significant. Regarding shared or separated rooms, and factors. 66% used separated room. For females the shared rooms amounted to 38% while it was 19% in males. Regarding major, approximately 66% of students reported using separate rooms. For medicine students the separate rooms amounted to 71% while it was 57% among pharmacy students was also statically significant
Conclusion: Sleep pattern and GPA had no relation. However, male students had deeper sleep than females. The percentage of female students in a shared room was higher than males. Finally, medical students had a higher percentage in sharing a room than pharmacy students. Most of the respondents are majoring in medicine, as well as females were triple the number of males, this may have affected the results.