Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic led to global healthcare consequences including insomnia. This survey used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to assess sleep quality at two time points (July 2020 and November 2020) among employees at a healthcare technology and services organization during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 1280 eligible employees, 251 complete responses (response rate, RR = 19.6%) in July and 108 (RR = 8.4%) in November were received and analyzed. The overall mean global PSQI scores were 7.3 ± 3.6 in July and 7.7 ± 3.6 in November 2020 (p > 0.05). There was no significant difference in any of the PSQI components or global scores between periods. Our findings indicate poor reported sleep quality among our study participants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional studies are needed to assess the longitudinal impact on sleep quality post-COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
Guglielmo CampusIn late December 2019, initial cases of an unfamiliar cause of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China [1]
These cases were subsequently defined as coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) [2,3,4]
The various quarantine, lock-down, and stay-at-home requirements enacted by international governments to control the spread of COVID-19 resulted in unpleasant psychological experiences [7]
Summary
In late December 2019, initial cases of an unfamiliar cause of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China [1]. These cases were subsequently defined as coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) [2,3,4]. The various quarantine, lock-down, and stay-at-home requirements enacted by international governments to control the spread of COVID-19 resulted in unpleasant psychological experiences [7]. These experiences were postulated to be caused by a feeling of constrained freedom and the absence of effective prophylactic regimens or treatments [7]. Similar experiences were observed in populations afflicted by other epidemics, due in part to feelings of fear and helplessness [7,12,13,14,15,16]
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