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The deterioration in sleep quality was independent of active work in the pandemic. This suggested that even if all healthcare professionals do not care for COVID-19 patients, working in a high-risk area may be sufficient to disrupt their sleep patterns. We evaluated how sleep behaviors changed in a large population of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, the presence of excessive daytime sleepiness, and their sleep quality with the Jenkins Sleep Scale (JSS), which is an easily applicable scale.
In the COVID 19 pandemic, very few studies have used the JSS and there is no study conducted in healthcare workers.