Sleep in Female Healthcare Workers during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study in Sweden during the Flattening of the First Wave of the Pandemic
Year: 2021
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Sleep in Female Healthcare Workers during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study in Sweden during the Flattening of the First Wave of the PandemicThe spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) challenges health systems worldwide.At the forefront of the pandemic, healthcare workers may face substantial stress due to overlong working hours and anxiety about being infected with the virus.Such stress may increase the risk of sleep disturbances among healthcare workers (1).For example, a survey in Spanish healthcare workers revealed that subjective sleep disturbances were more frequent in this group than in non-healthcare workers during the March to April (2020) outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (2).Stress during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic may have differed among countries.For instance, Sweden did not impose strict stay-at-home ("lockdown") orders, a strategy that may have led to a higher burden on health care and a greater pandemic death toll during the first wave in Sweden, compared with other Nordic countries (3-5).How such conditions may have impacted sleep among Swedish healthcare workers is unknown.Thus, we analyzed data from an anonymous survey in Sweden to compare subjective sleep measures between Swedish healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Language: English
Topic: COVID-19 and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Award: G3256562708
OpenAlex ID: W3121986956