Sleep Quality Among HCWs

Sleep Quality Among Health Care Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Kuwait Experience

The novel coronavirus has brought the world into uncharted waters. Whole countries are on lockdown, the economy has ground to a halt, and many people are afraid for themselves and their loved ones. With such unprecedented changes coming on so quickly, it's understandable that the importance of sleep is flying under the radar. But as we adjust to stay-at-home orders and try to remain healthy in a time of COVID-19, focusing on sleeping well offers tremendous benefits.

Millions of people suffered from insomnia before the coronavirus, and unfortunately, the pandemic creates a host of new challenges even for people who previously had no sleeping problems. The coronavirus pandemic doesn't affect everyone in the same way. Of course, patients with the virus and front-line medical workers face the brunt of the direct impacts of the disease. Social distancing, school closures, quarantines, working-from-home: all bring profound changes to normal routines for people of all ages and walks of life.

The aim of the current work is to assess the sleep quality among health care workers in the front-line management of COVID-19 in Kuwaiti Ministry of Health hospitals and its relation on medical errors.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sleep Quality
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: PSQI

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 217

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Zagazig, Egypt
    • Zagazig University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 25 years to 60 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Health care workers (HCWs) at Kuwaiti Ministry of Health hospitals ,Kuwait during the period from May 2020 to July 2020

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

-Health care workers at Kuwait Ministry of Health hospitals during the period from May 2020 to July 2020

Exclusion Criteria:

• Care givers above 60 years
• those who refuse to participate or requested to withdraw from the study at any time
• HCWs who were not on duty at the time of survey due to any leave or absence
• replies with incomplete answers or duplicate answers

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Cross-Sectional

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Presence of poor sleep quality or not	survey	one month period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
reported medical errors	survey	one month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Zagazig University
• Collaborators: Ministry of Health, Kuwait

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 19, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 18, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): September 5, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 8, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): September 16, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 21, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 18, 2020
• Last Verified: September 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020/1464

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No