The average Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale score among medical students was found to be 33.6 (sd=22.3). More males were found to be maladaptive daydreamers when compared to female medical students. Resultsģ4.3% of medical students at the University of Khartoum have identified themselves as maladaptive daydreamers. An analytical cross-sectional university-based study was conducted during the academic year 2020–2021, using a total of 323 self-administered online questionnaires the questionnaire containing the Arabic Version of Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale and other sociodemographic data were given by stratified random selection to undergraduate medical students at the University of Khartoum, in Sudan, between December and January 2021. The aim of this study was to help understand the full scope of maladaptive daydreaming among medical students at the University of Khartoum, in Sudan, by displaying all maladaptive daydreaming-related statistics among studied population. On the other hand, daydreaming can progress to a maladaptive state, known as maladaptive daydreaming. Daydreaming is a normal cognitive phenomenon in which the individual experiences a temporary separation from reality during which contact with reality is compromised and, to some extent, replaced by a visionary fantasy.
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