Insomnia, Depression and Anxiety among Healthcare workers during Covid-19 Pandemic - An Evidence-Based Review

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 prevent HCW from mental illness [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (09752366) is the property of Association of Indian Pharmacist and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )