Objective: The objective was to establish a quantifiable link between sleep depression and GPA of nursing students. Study Design: This is a cross sectional, observational analytical study. Place and duration: It was conducted in CMH Lahore Institute of Nursing for a duration of 4 months. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted at CMH Medical College, Lahore. A total of 41 willing students were included. After informed verbal consent, a predesigned questionnaire, adopted from similar studies, was used to obtain information regarding individual sleep hours, duty hours, perceptions regarding their sleep patterns and their GPA (academic performance). All the data was collected using Google Forms. The data was analysed using SPSS software. Results: A total of 41 participants were included in the study. The mean age of these participants was 19.76±0.97 years. Mean GPA was 3.44±0.21. Majority of the students believed that 12-hour shifts negatively impact their attention span in class (87.8 percent) and consequently their study routines (95.1 percent). A cumulative 82.9 percent of the participants felt that they needed more sleep for better patient safety and academic performance. Conclusion: The mean GPAs, sleep lengths, and wake/sleep times did not vary much within the sample population. However, apparent sleep quality and perceived tiredness varied significantly, with the respondents reporting a grave concern about patient welfare and future academic performance. Keywords: Sleep, sleep deprivation, GPA, performance.
COVID-19, which first appeared in the December of 2019, has claimed over two million deaths to this day and the number continues to grow daily. Some countries have managed to successfully curb the threat whereas others continue to struggle. It is vital that we look at the measures taken by these countries that others can also implement those models and overcome this pandemic successfully. Amongst the countries which were successful in keeping in check the spread of the virus and the deaths caused is Pakistan. This paper explores the preventive measures taken by Pakistan at each stage of this pandemic, by taking the efficacy of each measure by its effect on the number of active patients, number of recovered patients and the death. Primarily, the government owing to the financial instability of the population couldn’t implement robust lockdowns and travel bans, which resulted in the spread of the virus. As the time progressed, novel strategies were introduced which posed to be more successful in containing the spread. One of the strategies was the implementation of a smart lockdown based on successful implementation of a ‘track and trace’ strategy. Furthermore, ‘lockdown vs. livelihood’ calculation, intra-city travel bans, procuring foreign aid, provision of medicinal supplies and incorporation of media helped Pakistan limit the spread of the virus. These models can also be incorporated in other countries facing the virus, resulting in decreased number of active patients and deaths. These strategies might help the world overcome this pandemic.
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