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.