Sleep Patterns and BMI Corelations Among Medical Professionals in a Tertiary Hospital in Maharashtra

Abstract: Obesity and its associated risks are a leading public health concern. Sleep deprivation is speculated to boost appetite. Medical professionals are prone to sleep deprivation. Thus this study was designed to ascertain association between BMI and sleep deprivation among Medical students and professionals. Materials and Methods: Medicals Professionals and students were properly examined to exclude those suffering from any major diseases, psychiatric problems, alcoholics or sleep medication. Height & weight were examined to calculate BMI. Sleep quality & duration was assessed by a self-report questionnaire, PSQI. Pearson’s correlation was used to find the association among parameters. Results: 41.3%(102) had overweight BMI of ≥23; 38.1%(94) had poor sleep quality with PSQI score >5 and 43.3%(107) are sleep deprived with sleep duration 5-6 hours. Analysis showed highly significant negative correlation between BMI & sleep duration with ‘p’ value <0.01 and also highly significant positive correlation between BMI & PSQI score with ‘p’ value <0.01. Conclusions: It was found that with increase in BMI there is decrease in sleep duration as well as reduction in sleep quality which again leads to obesity as a vicious cycle. Hence proper education about sleep and life style modification is needed to medical professionals to prevent obesity and its associated comorbidities among them.