Sleep Quality Among HCWs

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

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04549350

Enrollment

217

Registered

2020-09-16

Start date

2020-05-19

Completion date

2020-09-05

Last updated

2020-09-21

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Conditions

Sleep Quality

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERPSQI

Assessment of sleep quality using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI): It is a simple tool which assess the sleep quality over one month period. It included seven components with a global PSQI score \> 5 is indicative of poor sleep quality

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

25 Years to 60 Years

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

Design outcomes

Primary

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

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
reported medical errors	one month	survey

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026