Investigation of Anxiety, Quality of Sleep and Quality of Working Life of Operating Room Technologists during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health care personnel are one of the vulnerable groups in relation to the covid-19 disease. Moreover, the exposure of operating room technologists to physical and mental risk factors, especially in the conditions of the corona epidemic, can also affect their work life. be influential. This study aimed to investigate the anxiety, quality of sleep and quality of work life of operating room technologists in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Methods and Materials: 

This research was a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study that was conducted on 80 operating room technologists of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences teaching hospitals by non-random sampling method in 1400. Data collection tools included demographic information questionnaire, Spielberger anxiety questionnaire, Pittsburgh sleep quality questionnaire and Walton work life quality questionnaire. The information was entered into SPSS software version 22 and data were analyzed after completing the questionnaires by the research units.

80 operating room technologists with an average age of 33.5 were studied in this research. 22 of them were male and 58 of them were female. The findings showed that the average anxiety of technologists in the operating room was 46.67±9.90, which is an average level, and the average score of their sleep quality is 8.63±3.53 which is relatively low. Furthermore, the average quality of their work life was 66.30±16.47, which is in the medium level. The results showed that the quality of work life has a significant relationship with the anxiety and sleep quality of the operating room technologists (p<0.05). Thus, the quality of their work life should be improved by decreasing the anxiety level and increasing the quality of sleep.

The results of this study showed that the anxiety and sleep quality of operating room technologists can affect the quality of their work life. As a result, it is possible to improve the quality of work life of technologists, increase the productivity of the hospital, and provide appropriate services to patients by taking appropriate measures to reduce the level of anxiety and improve the quality of sleep.