Restless Leg Syndrome in Dormitory and Its Relationship with Sleep Quality

Introduction: Restless legs syndrome, is a widespread, chronic, multifactorial movement condition of the limbs in which patients have an insatiable need to move their legs.

It was linked to poor quality sleep among students.

Objective: This study aim to explore The Relationship between them among health sciences students who live in dormitory.

Methods: We conducted a Quantitative cross-sectional observation study by using a validated questionnaire targeting Health sciences students and compare to those who live in dormitory Summary statistics for the data are presented in the form of numbers and percentages for categorical variables. A mean score for restless leg symptoms and quality of sleep was calculated. A higher score reflects severe symptoms or poor sleep quality.

IBM SPSS 26 for windows software was used for the analysis, and a P-value < 0.05 is considered statistically significant.

Results: A total of 148 students participated in this study. The highest percentage of participants are from the faculty of medicine (58.1%), while participants from other health sciences faculties ranged from 5.4% to 14.2%. 58.1% of the participants are living in the dorms.

The relationships between dormitory and restless leg syndrome average score and with sleep quality average score were studied using independent sample t test. The results showed no statistically significant difference between those living in the dorms and those outside the dorms in any of the scores. Even though the results showed no statistically significant difference between students of different faculties in the sleep quality score.

Conclusion: There was no statistically significant difference regarding living in dorms, but there was a statistically significant difference regarding the faculties.