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Sleep Quality of Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Americas: a Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta-aggregation.

2025· article· en· W4409882059 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Silke Anna Theresa Weber, T De A F Coelho, Rui Santana, A C Marão

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Health careMeta-analysisSystematic reviewHealth professionalsQuality (philosophy)Sleep (system call)Sleep quality2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPsychologyMedicineComputer scienceMEDLINEPolitical scienceVirologyDiseasePsychiatry

Abstract

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic increased physical and mental stress and altered the work processes of healthcare professionals, impacting their sleep quality. The aim of the study was to identify and synthesize the perceptions and experiences of healthcare professionals, including nurses, doctors, and residents in the Americas, regarding sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The qualitative systematic review and meta-aggregation of qualitative data followed the JBI SUMARI protocol, based on PICO. Studies published between 2020 and 2023 were included. Data were extracted from databases: BIREME, PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Cybertesis, and Canadian Dissertation and Theses. Qualitative data were separated and aggregated to domains. The quality of the studies was evaluated by JBI protocols, the level of evidence was analyzed. Results: Out of 900 screened and 47 selected studies, four analyzed 72 healthcare professionals, all nursing, with moderate study quality. Two main themes with high ConQual scores emerged: 1) the pandemic caused significant physical and mental health problems, which were either triggered by or expressed in sleep disorders; 2) professionals identified strategies to mitigate difficulties and challenges in the work environment. Conclusion: The pandemic had direct repercussions on the sleep quality of health professionals, highlighting the need for support programs and interventions to improve sleep quality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.055
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.127
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.055
Threshold uncertainty score0.289

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0550.127
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.013
Bibliometrics0.0170.015
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.215
GPT teacher head0.451
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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