Results
The demographic information of the participants and their working status
in the COVID-19 related unit are summarized in Table 1. A total of 740
healthcare professionals filled out the questionnaire.66% of population
were females (n=495) and 33% were males (n=247). The average age of the
population was 35.13±8.35 years.12.4% of the participants are high
school graduates, 60.9% are bachelor and 26.7% are masters or above.
And in addition, 70% are married.50.9% of the respondents are nurses,
21.4% are medical doctors,8% are health officer, 6.1% are medical
technician, 7.3% are medical secretary and 6.3% are others. At the
time the survey was completed, 49.1% of the participants were working
in the COVID-19 related unit, 44.8% were working in COVID-19 unrelated
unit and 6.1% were working inboth of them.
The changes in sleep parameters of the study participants before and
after the COVID-19 pandemic are summarized in Table 2. Subjective sleep
quality deteriorated significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic (poor
sleep, 16.9% before COVID-19 vs. %52.8 post COVID-19). Sleeping
behavior after 24:00 has increased after the Covid-19 pandemic (19.9%
before COVID-19 vs. %56.1 post COVID-19). In addition, during the
Covıd-19 pandemic, the duration of the participants’ falling asleep was
prolonged (falling asleep: 41.75±35.35 minutes) and the total sleep time
was shortened (total sleep time: 6.67±1.88 hours). Therefore, the need
to take sleeping pills has increased (sleeping pill using: %5.7). All
these results were found to be statistically significant. And also,
subjective sleep quality of healthcare professionals working actively
during the pandemic was found to be poor.
In the results obtained from the JSS-TR, which is used to evaluate sleep
quality, it was determined that sleep quality was statistically
significantly impaired in the COVID-19 pandemic (JSS-TR; 4.31±4.53
points before COVI-19 vs. 7.52±5.53 points post COVID-19). Further, it
has been observed that daytime sleepiness increased after the pandemic
(ESS score: 6.08±4.70 in post COVID-19) (Table 3). Those with
ESS>10 before COVID-19 were 3.9%, post-COVID-19
ESS>10 14.1% (p<0.001).There was no statistical
difference in JSS-TR (7.77±5.54 vs. 7.07±5.53) and ESS (6.24±4.63 vs.
5.71±4.80) values between health workers who were actively working and
not working during the pandemic.