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OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of insomnia in adults received at medical wards of Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro, during the Covid-19 pandemic METHODOLOGY: This cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted from February to July 2020, on 200 patients belonging to various educational and socio-economic backgrounds received at Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro. The sampling technique was nonprobability, consecutive. The inclusion criteria were males and females above the age of 18 years while the exclusion criteria were individuals with sleep-disordered breathing, prior history of sleep disturbance, and psychiatric illness. This study was funded by the authors. A questionnaire was designed to record the data, including the demographics, educational and job status, and score on Athens Insomnia Scale. The collected data was analyzed on SPSS 20. RESULTS: The study included 108 males (54%) and 92 females (46%) over the age of 18 years. Seventysix individuals (38%) said their sleep quality has worsened during the pandemic, including difficulty initiating sleep in 29, difficulty staying asleep in 22, and 25 having vivid dreams. Out of these, 68% were females and 32% were males, 124 respondents (62%) did not face the above-mentioned problems but 74 (37%) did confirm going to bed later at night and sleeping for a longer duration, while 50 (25%) did not notice any change in their sleeping pattern. CONCLUSION: The Covid-19 pandemic has upturned lives in several ways, including the disruption of sleeping patterns and increased prevalence of insomnia in patients received at medical wards of Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro.
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Introduction: COVID-19 was declared as "Pandemic" by World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 20120. Since this time, various awareness campaigns by health authorities and healthcare professionals have been conducted for knowledge and ultimately prevention of transmission of the disease. Proper attitude and knowledge toward the disease is the key point for prevention of COVID-19 as there is currently no treatment of vaccine available. Objective: Main objective of the study is to assess attitude, knowledge and perspective of COVID-19 in Pakistani Population. Methodology: An online - based and paper - based questionnaire was filled from both healthcare - related and non - healthcare - related individuals. Frequencies were analyzed using SPSS 21.0 Results: A total of 3256 individuals participated in the study, including both healthcare - related (2244/68.91%) and non - healthcare - related (1012/31.08%). Majority of the population had good knowledge in maximum questions. 89.60% believed COVID-19 as a contagious disease, 94.25% agreed that the cause of disease is primarily a virus, though small percentage didn't agree on this point. Regarding treatment, 68,08% individuals agreed that there is currently no treatment of COVID-19, followed by some believed antibiotics (4.39%), antiviral (14.52%) and passive immunization (2,64%) as treatment of the disease. Majority ofpopulation had good knowledge regarding clinical features of COVID-19. Conclusion: The knowledge, attitude and perspective of population were good as most of the people were agreed on standard facts. The reason behind this knowledge is awareness campaigns by health authorities and healthcare personnel, especially through media. Still there is lack of knowledge in some points due to misconceptions and false beliefs of population towards COVID-19. More campaigns with scientific data is required for prevention of the disease.