A year in review: sleep dysfunction and psychological distress in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 outbreak has taken a substantial toll on the mental and physical wellbeing of healthcare workers (HCWs), impacting healthcare systems at a global scale. One year into the pandemic, the need to establish the prevalence of sleep dysfunction and psychological distress in the face of COVID-19, identify risk and protective factors and explore effective countermeasures remains of critical importance. Despite implicit limitations relating to the quality of available studies, a plethora of evidence to-date suggests that a considerable proportion of HCWs experience significant sleep disturbances (estimated to afflict every two in five HCWs) as well as mood symptoms (with more than one in five reporting high levels of depression or anxiety). Younger age, female gender, frontline status,

SUBMITTER: Pappa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277954 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature