Sleep Quality Among Interns In A Tertiary Care Centre In  Kanyakumari District – A Cross Sectional Study

BACKGROUND: Good quality sleep is important in order to have better cognitive performance and avoid health problems. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the Sleep quality among M.B.B.S interns in a tertiary care centre.2. To find the Correlation between Body Mass Index and Sleep quality. METHODOLOGY: A Cross sectional study was conducted among Interns of a teritiary care centre southern Tamilnadu in the month of April 2023 and the sleep quality was assessed by using Sleep Quality Scale. Date were collected after Ethics Committee clearance and entered in MS Excel and analysed using SPSS. The Correlation between BMI and Sleep quality were analysed. RESULTS: Mean age of the participants was 24.03 among them 34.8% were males and 65.2% were females. Mean BMI of the participants was 22 with the minimum BMI of 17 and the maximum BMI of 35. Mean total score was 34.93 with the minimum score of 8 and the maximum score of 64. There is weak correlation between BMI and Sleep quality. CONCLUSION: Optimal level of balance between training and adequate sleep is important in residency programmes. Our study indicates that there is no relationship between BMI and sleep quality among M.B.B.S interns in Kanyakumari district.