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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S349–S805

EV1237

Quality of sleep in a sample of

Egyptian medical students

M. Elwasify

1 ,

, R. Farag (Sixth year Medical Student)

2

,

D. Barakat

3

, M. Fawzy

4

, A. Abozeid

4

, M. Elwasify

1

, I. Rashed

1

,

D.N. Radwan

3

1

Mansoura Faculty of medicine, Psychiatry Center, Mansoura, Egypt

2

Mansoura Faculty of medicine, Mansoura, Egypt

3

Ain Shams University, Psychiatry Center, Cairo, Egypt

4

Psychiatry Center, Assiut, Egypt

Corresponding author.

Background

In the last few years, there has been a growing atten-

tion to sleep and related disorders. Numerous studies conducted

within the past decade have analyzed the deleterious effects of

sleep deprivation on medical students and medical staff in vari-

ous specialties, but only few studies have been conducted in the

Middle East.

Aim of the study

This study intends to explore the quality of sleep

in different academic classes of medical undergraduate students of

two Egyptian Universities.

Subject and methods

This is a cross-sectional, questionnaire

based, observational study carried out during the period of April to

June, 2015 among 1182 under graduate medical students enrolled

at Assiut and Mansoura Universities, Egypt.

The data were gathered using socio-demographic questionnaire

and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and were analyzed using

SPSS software.

Results

Mean PSQI score was 6.01 (SD = 2.73), according to PSQI

interpretation 46.7% of subjects had good sleep quality and 53.3%

had poor sleep quality. Poor sleep quality was mostly preva-

lent among early years of medical education, caffeine consumers,

cigarette smokers, students with fair academic achievement, those

with fairly bad and very bad subjective sleep quality, sleep latency

above 30minutes, sleep duration less than 7 hours, fairly bad and

very bad daytime functioning, those taking sleep medications,

those with sleep disturbance, and sleep efficiency below 85%.

Conclusion

Poor sleep quality is highly prevalent in the medical

students in Egypt.

Keywords

Sleep quality; Medicine students; Pittsburgh Sleep

Quality Index

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.2222

Suicidology and suicide prevention

EV1238

Depression and suicide ideation in

medical students

A. Alonso Sanchez , A. Alvarez Astorga , H. De la Red Gallego

,

R. Hernandez Antón , S. Gómez Sanchez , C. Noval Canga ,

I. Sevillano Benitez , G. Isidro García , M. Hernandez García ,

F. De Uribe Ladrón de Cegama

HCU Valladolid, Psychiatry, Valladolid, Spain

Corresponding author.

Background

Medical students have higher levels of depressive

symptoms than the general population. Additionally, depressed

students are more likely to commit suicide. Recent studies find

up to 10% of medical students experiment depression and suici-

dal ideation, which is meaningfully higher than general population

of similar age (5–8%). However, little is known about depression

and suicidal ideation in medical students in Spain.

Objective

This study aims to create a self-administered ques-

tionnaire to investigate the prevalence and factors involved in

depression and suicidal behaviour inmedical students froma Span-

ish University.

Methods

We evaluated the main risk factors leaning to sui-

cide in students. In addition, we selected an appropriate scale to

assess depression among the existing ones. The evaluated items

included demographic reports, academic information (academic

course, unfinished subjects and accomplishment) and sanitary

data (psychiatric family history, psychiatric personal history, psy-

chotropic drug consumption, distress emotional events in the last

twelve months and drugs consumption). Furthermore, we selected

the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) because of its

rapidly implementation and proven efficacy.

Conclusions

Rates of depression and suicidal ideation are high

in medical students. Currently, there is no program to detect and

prevent depression neither suicide in students. For that reason, we

consider that creating a new instrument to evaluate mental health

in student is useful in order to offer early detection and treatment

at medical school.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

Further reading

Tan Siew T, Sherina Mohd S, Lekhraj Rampal P. Prevalence and pre-

dictors of suicidaly among medical students in a public university.

Med J Malaysia 2015;7(1).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.2223

EV1239

Description of the autolitic acts

attended in a mental health unit in

2014

A.M. Alvarez Montoya

1 ,

, C . D

iago Labrador

2 ,

T. Ruano Hernandez

3

1

Algeciras, Spain

2

Clinica Privada, Psiquiatria, Algeciras, Spain

3

Clinica Privada, Psicologia Clinica, Malaga, Spain

Corresponding author.

Objective

The objective of the study is the analysis and the

description of patients who committed autolitic acts and were

attended in a mental health hospital unit in 2014.

Method

We analyze the patient registry for the attended emer-

gencies in our mental health hospital unit, extracting the following

variables: gender distribution, age range, type of method applied

in the attempt and diagnosis based on DSM-IV TR.

Results

The study reveals a larger share of autolitic acts in the

feminine population between 14 and 69 years old. A total of 31

patients needed to be attended in an emergency hospital unit

(11.74%). Themost commonmethod is themedical substance abuse

(23 patients, 74.19% from the admitted patients in our Mental

Health Hospitalary Unit). The diagnoses in order of frequencywere;

affective disorders (13 patients, 41.93%), personality disorders (8

patients, 25.80%), adaptative disorders (7 patients, 22.58%) and psy-

chotics disorders (3 patients, 9.68%).

Conclusion

Our population-based sample confirms the epidemi-

ologic data found in the consulted literature as well as in other

population groups.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.2224