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Abstract: Background- Medical interns undergo huge amount of pressure. They tend to reduce their amount of sleep and develop altered sleep pattern in an effort to adjust and cope with their workload and stressful environment. Thus, the above situation leads to deprivation of sleep quality. Objectives: To observe sleep quality assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and to study factors associated with it among study population. Aim: To determine factors associated with poor sleep quality. Materials and Methods- This is a cross sectional self-administered questionnaire based study among the 100 medical interns. Data is analysed statistically by MS-Excel 2016 using Chi-square test Results- out of 100 interns, the majority were having poor sleep quality (53%). Female counterparts were found to be good sleepers (56.90%). Maximum students with sleeping arrangement of sleeping alone in a room were having good sleep quality (70.15%). Most of them having sleep duration of 7-8 hours (65.79%) or more (71.43%) were good sleepers. But those having habit of Coffee intake (62.26%) and regular smoking (92%) were found to be having poor sleep quality. Majority of those doing regular exercises were good sleepers (52.94%).Students spending time on electronic media like mobile or laptop for less than one hour were mostly good sleepers (71.43%).All of the above study factors had P value of <0.05. Among those consuming alcohol on regular basis most of them were having poor sleep quality (97.05%), but there was no statistical significance between interns consuming alcohol and those who did not with P value marginally >0.05. Conclusion: As there were statistical differences found in gender, sleeping arrangement, sleep duration, coffee intake, smoking habit, regular exercises and use of electronic devices, these factors are related with the sleep quality of study population.