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Quality of sleep and health-related quality of life among health care professionals treating patients with coronavirus disease-19

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  • Jelena Stojanov
  • Marina Malobabic
  • Goran Stanojevic
  • Milos Stevic
  • Vuk Milosevic
  • Aleksandar Stojanov

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Background: Health care professionals exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are facing high levels of stress. Aim: The aim was to evaluate the quality of sleep (QoS) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), among health care professionals treating patients with COVID-19, as well as quantifying the magnitude of symptoms of depression and levels of anxiety. Methods: We included 201 health care professionals in a cross-sectional, web-based study by applying 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) Scale, Zung Self-rating Depression Scale, 36-item Health Survey of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF36), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and additional survey constructed for the purpose of the study. Results: Health care workers who treated COVID-19 patients were more afraid of becoming infected or of transmitting the infection to a family member with a significantly low self-assessment of their mental status. Poor QoS and HRQoL correlated with high health anxiety and severe depressive symptoms and several demographic characteristics. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that higher scores on GAD-7 (beta = .71, p  

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  • Jelena Stojanov & Marina Malobabic & Goran Stanojevic & Milos Stevic & Vuk Milosevic & Aleksandar Stojanov, 2021. "Quality of sleep and health-related quality of life among health care professionals treating patients with coronavirus disease-19," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 67(2), pages 175-181, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:67:y:2021:i:2:p:175-181
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764020942800
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