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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4270</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.132411</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Problems Faced by Healthcare Professionals of Lahore Pakistan in Covid-19 Pandemic&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ashraf</surname><given-names>Junaid</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yousaf</surname><given-names>Ruhamah</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Saeed</surname><given-names>Bareera</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rehman</surname><given-names>Iqra</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Aslam</surname><given-names>Sonia</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yousaf</surname><given-names>Anila</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ashraf</surname><given-names>Shahzaib</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>13</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>4)</volume><issue/><fpage>29</fpage><lpage>34</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Corona virus is an uncontrollable pandemic disease spread by the severe acute respiratory distress corona virus disease. Covid-19 pandemic has a great impact on the mental and physical health of people. Objectives: To find out the sleep problems, depression and anxiety symptoms among front line health care professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic situation in Lahore Pakistan. Methodology: A comparative cross-sectional study design was used and data was collected from various hospitals of Lahore through a non-probability purposive sampling technique. The study duration was from January 2021 to May 2021. A three-part standardized questioner PSQI (Pittsburgh sleep quality Index), PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire __ampersandsignndash; PHQ-9) and GAD-7 (Generalized anxiety disorder ) was prepared to explore and compare the prevalence of sleep problems, depression and anxiety symptoms among frontline health care workers. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: The study highlighted that there was minimal anxiety in staff nurses. The result of the study showed severe sleep problems in health care workers. The majority of the staff nurses faced sleep problems as compared to doctors or respiratory therapists. Staff nurses were poor sleepers. The result of this study showed a mild level of depression among the doctors. Conclusion: This study concludes that sleep disturbance is significantly associated with the COVID-19 pandemic situation while it is insignificantly associated with depression and anxiety symptoms resulting due to COVID-19 pandemic situation among front line health care workers in Lahore, Pakistan.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>COVID-19</kwd><kwd> Pandemic situation</kwd><kwd> Sleep quality</kwd><kwd> Anxiety</kwd><kwd> Depression</kwd><kwd> Healthcare Professionals</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
