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Table 3. Manifestations of sleep disorders among military members who performed duties of community policing during
the pandemic COVID-19.

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Group 1 1 Group 2 2 Group 3 (Control)
Indicators Total Men Women Total Men Women Total Men Women
N. % N. % N. % N. % N. % N. % N. % N. % N. %
Mean ISI score 5.62 5.76 6.56 6.97 6.62 8.89 5.35 5.21 6.00
No clinically
significant 98 87.50 85 88.54 13 81.25 88 75.21 77 77.78 11 61.11 100 95.24 83 96.51 17 89.47
insomnia
Subthreshold 12 10.71 10 10.42 2 12.50 23 19.66 19 19.19 4 22.22 4 3.81 3 3.49 1 5.26
insomnia
Moderately
severe clinical 2 1.79 1 1.04 1 6.25 4 3.42 2 2.02 2 11.11 1 0.95 0 0.00 1 5.26
insomnia
Severe clinical 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 2 1.71 1 1.01 1 5.56 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
insomnia
Note. N.: number of military members performed duties of community policing during the epidemic eruption of COVID-19; % percentage value;
1 Group 1: military members who had experience of community policing and some battle experience – 112 people, among them: 96 (85.71%) men and 16
(14.29%) women;
2 Group 2: military members who had experience of community policing, but did not have any battle experience – 117 people, among them: 99 (84.62%)
men and 18 (15.38%) women;
3 Group 3 (Control): military members who did not have experience of community policing as well as any battle experience – 105 people, among them: 86
(81.90%) men and 19 (18.10%) women.

Discussion
In Wuhan (Hubei, China) in December, 2019, a severe
Indices values, % 2) has been indicated (Dong, Du, & Gardner, 2020;
acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-
Lauer et al., 2020).
Initially, the new virus was called 2019-nCoV.
Subsequently, the task of experts of the International
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) termed it
the SARS-CoV-2 virus as it is very similar to the one
that caused the SARS outbreak (SARS-CoVs) (Cascella,
Rajnik, Cuomo, Dulebohn, & Di Napoli, 2020).
This coronavirus leads to potentially mortal disease
Figure 5. Manifestations of sleep disorders among called COVID-19 (Rothan & Byrareddy, 2020).
military members who performed duties of community The spread of COVID-19 has acquired a pandemic
policing during the pandemic COVID-19. nature (A. Remuzzi & Remuzzi, 2020).
By now the disease has spread over more than a hundred
The average point by “ISI” methods in Group 2 (6.97)
exceeded considerably the indices of Group 1 (5.62) and of countries of the world and has embraced a million of
Control Group (5.35), that proves qualitative disorders people (Johns Hopkins University, Coronavirus
in the form of shortening the length of night sleep, too Resource Center, 2020).
late falling asleep, too early waking-up, frequent Fast spreading, a wide range and consequences have
interruptions of sleep during a night. It should be placed this problem to the first place among scientific
indicated that the average point by “ISI” methods among research.
the women has been higher in all the groups than among The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound effect on
the men (see Figure 6). To our mind it has resulted from all aspects of society, including mental health as well as
a higher level of their extraversion and stress in physical health (Brooks et al., 2020; Holmes et al., 2020;
conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shigemura, Ursano, Morganstein, Kurosawa, &
Cross-tabulation for the methods “Insomnia Severity Benedek; 2020.
Index” is presented as Table C. The scientific publications emphasis the urgency of
collecting high-quality data of the affect of the COVID-
19 pandemic on the mental health of the whole
population and vulnerable groups in particular. It is
I n d i c e s v a l u e , p o i n t s should be developed in order to lessen the consequences
emphasised that certain research and recommendations
of the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental
health of vulnerable groups (Holmes et al., 2020).
Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare
workers during the COVID-19 pandemic has been
researched (Greenberg, Docherty, Gnanapragasam, &
Wessely, 2020), it has been studied in the sphere of
education as well (Araújo de Oliveira et al., 2020).

The influence of consequences of the COVID-19
Figure 6. Mean “ISI” score. pandemic on mental health in the clinical aspect has

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