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Background: A successful learning process can be influenced by an individual’s attention level that can affect his/her concentration level and memory capacity. Some psychological and neurological aspects contribute to the attention level. If an individual experiences attention disorder, he/she can be difficult to learn and work efficiently. One of factors that may affect the individual’s attention is sleeping quality. A sufficient sleeping quality plays an important role in an individual’s development and daily activities.Objective: This study aims to analyse relationships between the sleeping quality and the attention of students to improve their learning performances.Methods: This study was an observational analysis study with a cross-sectional design that involved 87 senior high school students. The inclusion criteria of this study were male/female students between 14 to 19 years old who were willing to be respondents by signing informed consent form. Its exclusion criteria were male/female students who were experiencing brain-related injuries and who were on medical treatment causing drowsiness such as influenza drugs, cough syrups and sleeping pills. This study was conducted for four months. The data were collected by interviews and questionnaires including identity data, educational level, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index valuation and digit span tests. The samples were collected with a consecutive non-random sampling method. Its data analysis was conducted by applying SPSS V.21 through Chi-Square statistical test with a significance level of 0.05.Results: Of the 87 respondents, 50.6% were females and 35.6% were 15 years old. The majority of them were at class X (10th grade). Also, 52.9% of them had low sleeping quality and 74% of them suffered bad attention. Based on the Chi-Square test, the relationship between the sleeping quality and the attention level was not significant with p value of 0.938. Conclusion: There was no a significant relationship between the sleeping quality and the attention levels on the senior high school students.

Hospital healthcare workers of emergency departments (EDs) face a variety of occupational stressors on a daily basis. We have recently published that emergency professionals display increased salivary levels of alpha-amylase and dehydroepiandrosterone during the working day. The pattern of these markers may suggest a counteracting mechanism of dehydroepiandrosterone against the stress reflected by amylase increases. In order to verify this hypothesis, we have analysed different psychological aspects in the same group of healthcare professionals through different tests related to behaviours resulting from stress. These include the state-trait anxiety inventory, the self-efficacy test and the sleeping quality questionnaire. The tests were provided at the beginning of the working day and collected at the end. STAI scores (trait and state) were indicative of no anxiety. Self-efficacy scores were considered optimal, as well as those from the sleeping quality questionnaire. This is supported by the modest correlation between STAI scores and salivary levels of alpha-amylase and dehydroepiandrosterone. In conclusion, the emergency professionals of the studied hospitals seem to have adequate work management. Altogether it means that the stress generated during work performance is controlled, allowing a correct adaptation to the demanding situations undergone in emergency departments.

AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Ramadan fasting on blood pressure (BP), fatigue, sleeping and physical activity among hypertensive patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from April 2019 to July 2019. Of the total 1500 hypertensive patients approached, 1118 (74.5%) gave their consent. Data analysis included sociodemographics, lifestyle habits, anthropometric measurements and clinical biochemistry parameters at baseline, and after 3 months. RESULTS: Out of 1118 subjects, 593(47.6%) were male and 653(52.4%) were female. There were statistically significant differences between males and females regarding age groups in years, educational level, occupational status, income, smoking habits, physical exercise, sports activities and fatigue. There were statistically significant differences for the biochemistry parameters regarding vitamin D, blood glucose, HbA1c level, creatinine, bilirubin, albumin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL-C, LDL-C, uric acid and SBP for both males and females after the holy month of Ramadan as compared to before Ramadan. Also, BMI was significantly lower during the after month of Ramadan as compared to before Ramadan (P