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Insomnia, Depression and Anxiety among Healthcare workers during Covid-19 Pandemic - An EvidenceBased Review
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MUOKA CHIDIEBERE JEPHTHA, JAGADEESAN M
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Background:Covid-19 is a serious lower respiratory infection leading to severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)caused by a novel coronavirus that began spreading from Wuhan, China in
December 2019 distributed worldwide. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, Healthcare workers have been
experiencing severe mental health illness like Depression and Anxiety and Insomnia. This evidence-based study
Conducted to determine the prevalence of Insomnia, Depression and Anxiety amongst healthcare workers
during COVID-19 pandemic.
Materials and Methods:Theevidence-based review is done based on the studies conducted from January to
May 2020. From ScienceDirect and PubMed were collected thecross-sectional studies with the keywords of
Boolean operators “Anxiety” AND “Depression” AND “Insomnia” AND “Healthcare Workers” AND
“Covid-19” AND “Coronavirus” AND “Pandemic”.
Result: A total number to 159 studies were collected after the keywords search. After the exclusion of 149
studies, ten studies were included. The total number of health care workers who were involved in this study is
15982 of which 5849 (36.6%) were Physicians, 7590 (47.49%) were nurses, and 2542 (15.91%)are other health
care workers. 1631 (10.27%), 5567 (34.83%), and 4344 (27.18%) healthcare workers had symptoms of
Insomnia, Depression, and Anxiety, respectively.
Conclusion: Significant number of health care workers are affected by mental illness in all the affected
countries irrespective of their age, gender and profession. Hence all the respective organizations and individual
health care workers can prepare and follow the precautions recommended by various authorities to preventHCW from mental illness.
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Insomnia, Depression, Anxiety, Health care workers, Covid-19, Coronavirus, Pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.02.007
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