Research
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Caring for patients with confirmed COVID-19 is associated with significantly higher levels of insomnia, chronic and acute fatigue, depersonalization, and post-traumatic stress compared to caring for non-COVID-19 patients.
Healthcare administrators must recognize that caring for COVID-19 patients imposes a unique psychological burden. Staff assigned to these units require targeted mental health support, sleep resources, and protected break times to mitigate the increased risk of burnout and PTSD.
GoodSupportsHIGH confidence
Nurses who cared for COVID-19 patients had significantly scored worse on almost all measures than their co-workers... Nursing staff who cared for patients with COVID-19 had significantly higher insomnia... and post-traumatic stress... compared with co-workers who did not care for patients with COVID-19.
Why this rating
Cross-sectional design limits causal claims, but the sample size and statistical significance are strong.
Source
Insomnia, fatigue and psychosocial well‐being during COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional survey of hospital nursing staff in the United States
Knar Sagherian et al. · Journal of Clinical Nursing · 2020
cross_sectional · n=587Cited 246×
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