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The COVID-19 pandemic causes some problems such as depression, anxiety and sleep problems in the world. However, it is thought that the effect of this may be heavier in healthcare professionals who are in close contact with COVID-19. In addition, the workloads of healthcare proffesionals has increased considerably in pandemic period. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate both physicians and nurses working in pandemic services in terms of stress, anxiety, depression and sleep quality compared to proffesionals in other departments. In this study, the participants were asked to answer the demographic data form, Beck Anxiety Survey, Beck Depression Survey, and Jenkins Sleep Scale. A total of 85 people, 43 of whom were nurses and 42 were physicians, participated in the study. 48 (56.5%) people had a history of working actively in the Covid-19 pandemic department of the hospital. Patients in both groups were found to be similar in terms of gender distribution, marital status, education level, and chronic disease. It was found that 37.6% of all healthcare professionals had depression, 31.7% had anxiety, and 42.3% had poor sleep quality. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of anxiety and depression level. However, the sleep scale level was found to be significantly higher in the professionals working in the Covid-19 pandemic department compared to the other group. In addition, when looking at the rate, sleep quality was found to be worse in a higher percentage of participants in the covid worker group than in the other group. It was observed that sleep quality worsened significantly as education level increased in correlation analysis. The sleep quality of healthcare professionals is very important in order to ensure the continuity of quality in healthcare services. It is thought that this study is important in terms of showing that the sleep quality is poor in healthcare professionals, especially in physicians working in pandemic duration.

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