FACTORS THAT AFFECT MEDICAL STUDENTS' ATTENTION IN CLASS AT AL-IMAM MUHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IN THE PRE-CLINICAL PHASE DURING 2013.

In this study, we focused on medical students at Al-Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University in the pre-clinical phase during 2013 as a study population. We conducted a convenience sample cross sectional study design among 362 students. The questionnaire was sent electronically. 1st, 2nd and 3rd year medical students were included in the study. Response rate was 33.7%. 50% of the participants were first year students. 51.6% of students estimated that their attention ability is from 41%-70% of the lecture. 74.9% sleep 3-6 hours at night. As for breakfast, they were divide into 35.2% eat their breakfast before classes, 29.5% eat during breaks, and 35.2% eat brunch instead. Pearson correlation shows GPA to be significant (0.00), Social networking in class as well (0.00), Social networking during the day(0.025) which is very near to (0.00). Witch proves association between these confounders and attention in class. GPA to be positive relationship, Social networking in class and during the day to be inverse relationship. Using regression and 95% confidence interval, GPA was significant for (<0.001) and Social networking during day was significant for (0.003) and Social networking in class had significance of (0.061) which is very near to (0.05) which could be considered significant. As for CI, it did not cross in GPA nor social networking during class but did for sleeping, breakfast, and Social networking in class. Surprisingly, sleeping and breakfast had not significance in any of the tests used. This could be correlated with the low response rate.