Sleep Quality Among HCWs

Zagazig University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Quality

Treatments: Other: PSQI

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04549350

2020/1464

Details and patient eligibility

About

The novel coronavirus has brought the world into uncharted waters. Whole countries are on lockdown, the economy has ground to a halt, and many people are afraid for themselves and their loved ones. With such unprecedented changes coming on so quickly, it's understandable that the importance of sleep is flying under the radar. But as we adjust to stay-at-home orders and try to remain healthy in a time of COVID-19, focusing on sleeping well offers tremendous benefits.

Millions of people suffered from insomnia before the coronavirus, and unfortunately, the pandemic creates a host of new challenges even for people who previously had no sleeping problems. The coronavirus pandemic doesn't affect everyone in the same way. Of course, patients with the virus and front-line medical workers face the brunt of the direct impacts of the disease. Social distancing, school closures, quarantines, working-from-home: all bring profound changes to normal routines for people of all ages and walks of life.

The aim of the current work is to assess the sleep quality among health care workers in the front-line management of COVID-19 in Kuwaiti Ministry of Health hospitals and its relation on medical errors.

Enrollment: 217 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Health care workers at Kuwait Ministry of Health hospitals during the period from May 2020 to July 2020

Exclusion criteria

• Care givers above 60 years
• those who refuse to participate or requested to withdraw from the study at any time
• HCWs who were not on duty at the time of survey due to any leave or absence
• replies with incomplete answers or duplicate answers