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The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the state’s public health, law, and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service.

Pandemic significantly increases insomnia in health care workers

Credit: Augusta University The COVID pandemic appears to have triggered about a 44% increase in insomnia disorder among health care workers at a medical-school affiliated health system, with the highest rates surprisingly among those who spent less time in direct patient care, investigators say. Another surprise was that about 10% of the group of 678 faculty physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, like nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as well as residents and fellows, reported in a 17-question survey that their insomnia actually got better in the early months of the pandemic, says Dr. Vaughn McCall, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Scholarship, non-profit established for Helen Etuk as university has yet to comment

The friends and family of Helen Etuk have launched a project to establish a scholarship and non-profit organization in her name as the university has yet to comment on her death.  Etuk was a friendly, good-hearted person who was often described as a “gentle soul” by others, her brother Jeff Ayisire said. A 20-year-old senior, she was a member of the Honors College and studying to become a pediatrician. Etuk died on Jan. 12 from COVID-19 complications. “Helen loves to help people any way she can and the fact that she wasn’t able to finish school really broke her heart,” Etuk’s best friend Taylor Brock said. “I want to be able to help someone in Helen’s name and her spirit to live on.”

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