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Associations between Sleep Hygiene and Mental Complaints in a French Healthcare Workers Population during COVID-19 Crisis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis to Personalize Sleep Health Interventions
Coelho, J.; Micoulaud-Franchi, J.-A.; Philip, P. Associations between Sleep Hygiene and Mental Complaints in a French Healthcare Worker Population during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis to Personalize Sleep Health Interventions. Clocks & Sleep2024, 6, 246-254.
Coelho, J.; Micoulaud-Franchi, J.-A.; Philip, P. Associations between Sleep Hygiene and Mental Complaints in a French Healthcare Worker Population during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis to Personalize Sleep Health Interventions. Clocks & Sleep 2024, 6, 246-254.
Coelho, J.; Micoulaud-Franchi, J.-A.; Philip, P. Associations between Sleep Hygiene and Mental Complaints in a French Healthcare Worker Population during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis to Personalize Sleep Health Interventions. Clocks & Sleep2024, 6, 246-254.
Coelho, J.; Micoulaud-Franchi, J.-A.; Philip, P. Associations between Sleep Hygiene and Mental Complaints in a French Healthcare Worker Population during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis to Personalize Sleep Health Interventions. Clocks & Sleep 2024, 6, 246-254.
Abstract
Healthcare workers have atypical working schedule and are exposed to experienced stress that led to poor sleep health and frequent mental complaints, particularly since the Covid-19 crisis. We conducted a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of poor sleep hygiene and mental complaints and their associations among healthcare workers. Usual sleep-wake timings were ex-plored during workdays and free days and used to compute sleep duration, sleep efficiency and social jetlag. Insomnia, sleepiness, anxiety and depressive symptoms, and fatigue were calculated using validated scales. A total of 1,562 participants were included (80.5% of women and mean age of 40.0). Among them, 25.9% slept less than 6 hours, 24.3% had a poor sleep efficiency, and 11.5% reported a social jetlag. A total of 33.9% of participants reported insomnia, 45.1% reported EDS, 13.1% reported fatigue, 16.5% reported depression and 35.7% reported anxiety. After ad-justment, sleep duration and sleep efficiency were associated with mental complaints. Social jetlag was associated with significant insomnia but not with anxiety or depression symptoms. Healthcare workers have a high prevalence of poor sleep hygiene and mental complaints. The promotion of sleep health through behavioral sleep strategies should be encouraged to ensure good health for these professionals.
Keywords
sleep; social jetlag; healthcare workers; regularity; occupational health
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
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