European Psychiatry - Volume 33 - March 2016

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S744 24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S349–S805
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Quality of sleep in a sample of
Egyptian medical students
M. Elwasify ∗, R. Farag (Sixth year Medical Student) ,
D. Barakat , M. Fawzy , A. Abozeid , M. Elwasify , I. Rashed ,
D.N. Radwan
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.
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).
EV1239
Description of the autolitic acts
attended in a mental health unit in
2014
A.M. Alvarez Montoya ∗ iago Labrador
T. Ruano Hernandez
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.