Sleep Difficulties Among COVID-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify COVID-19 work-related stressors and experiences associated with sleep difficulties in HCW, and to assess the role of depression and traumatic stress in this association.

Methods

A cross-sectional study of HCW using self-report questionnaires, during the first peak of the pandemic in Israel (April 2020), conducted in a large tertiary medical center in Israel. Study population included 189 physicians and nurses working in designated COVID-19 wards and a comparison group of 643 HCW. Mean age of the total sample was 41.7 ± 11.1, 67% were female, 42.1% physicians, with overall mean number of years of professional experience 14.2 ± 20. The exposure was working in COVID-19 wards and related specific stressors and negative experiences. Primary outcome measureme

SUBMITTER: Cleper R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9098971 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature