What does this article add?
The deterioration in sleep quality was independent of active work in the
pandemic. This suggested that even if all healthcare professionals do
not care for COVID-19 patients, working in a high-risk area may be
sufficient to disrupt their sleep patterns. We evaluated how sleep
behaviors changed in a large population of healthcare workers during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, the presence of excessive daytime
sleepiness, and their sleep quality with the Jenkins Sleep Scale (JSS),
which is an easily applicable scale.
In the COVID 19 pandemic, very few studies have used the JSS and there
is no study conducted in healthcare workers.