International Journal of Forensic Medicine

Author(s): Dr. Abdulhadi Mohamed Jumaa, Ali Rashid Majid, Duaa Hussein and Aya Emad Saed

Abstract: Background: After the appearance of a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) during 2019, the virus has spread with alarming speed and a pandemic quickly developed. The complex consequences of the pandemic phenomenon, i.e., the consequences of the pandemic per se and the countermeasures adopted to control infections and deaths, were associated with a negative impact on sleep quality. Besides, sleep disorders have special attention in the field of public health, due to good sleep quality favors to better health and well-being. Moreover, it is a primordial biological process for mental and physical health, negative emotions contribute to affect the quality of sleep, leading to sleep disorders. This demonstrates the need to prevent and reduce these complications through psychological support.Aim of the study: To assess sleep disturbance and healthy sleep in medical staff who recovered from covid-19 infection.Subjects and Methods: A cross sectional study enrolled 100 medical staff participants recovered from covid-19, from 1st of December to the 1st of march 2023, including 20-40 years old participants of both sex by using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) The PSQI is a widely used 19-item self-report questionnaire for measuring sleep disturbances and healthy sleep, It includes seven clinically derived domains of sleep difficulties, including sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances was conducted in Tikrit city using interviewer administered questionnaire through direct interview and the collected data was represented by a suitable tables.Results: The study shows that among 100 participants who have gained recovery from covid-19, 65% (65) were female in gender and 35% (35) were male between (20-40) years. Participants were infected before 3 months were 33 (33%), and also 33 participants (33%) were infected before 2 months, while 34 (34%) participants were infected before 1 month. The study found that, the mean age of participants was 25 years and the mean time of sleep latency was 44.52 minutes which is prolonged than the normal time for a fall to sleep during normal situation and also in our study we demonstrate that, there was statistically significant association between body mass index and global sleep score and p –value was less than 0.05Conclusion: The results suggest that there was no persistent and significant sleep disturbance up to 3 months after recovery.1.There was significant difference between groups with normal and abnormal sleep and body mass index.2.Low scores of PSQI was noted in 65% of participants3.There was no significant difference between groups with normal and abnormal sleep and gender.Weak points: In our study we face some weak points which considered as limitations for evaluation of sleep quality and the most important one is an element of subjectivity because it depends one questionnaireRecommendation: The study recommended that:1.To do more population based longitudinal studies to investigate psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of sleep disturbance.2.To include large sample size in the next studies3.To concentrate on those with high body mass index4.To use different type of index for sleep assessments.

DOI: 10.33545/27074447.2023.v5.i2a.66

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