Medical Student Sleep Quality and GERD Symptoms Survey from Lima, Peru

A cross-sectional study of 171 medical students from a private university in Lima, Peru. The dataset contains survey results assessing sleep quality with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and GERD symptoms with the Frequency Scale for the Symptoms of GERD. It was authored by Alvaro F. Montalvo-Peralta and last updated on 2026-06-01.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between GERD symptom burden and poor sleep quality based on the reported prevalence ratios.
• Investigate dose-response relationships based on the GERD symptom score increases linked to sleep quality prevalence.
• Study demographic factors like age and gender distribution within a specific medical student population.
• Benchmark sleep quality and GERD prevalence rates against other student or young adult cohorts.

Strengths

• Includes specific, validated survey instruments: the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Frequency Scale for the Symptoms of GERD.
• Provides adjusted prevalence ratios (aPR) with 95% confidence intervals for the association between GERD and poor sleep quality.
• Reports clear demographic statistics for the 171 participants, including median age (22 years) and gender distribution (64.9% female).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analytical methods.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single private university in Lima, Peru, which may limit generalizability to other populations.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional analytical study using survey instruments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 17:45:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lima, Peru