The mediating role of attention deficit in relationship between insomnia and social cognition tasks among nurses in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

Manzar, MD, Kashoo, F, Albougami, A, Alamri, M, Alotaibi, JS, Alrasheadi, BA, Almansour, AM, Ahmad, M, Sirajudeen, MS, Sikkandar, MY and Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, 2023. The mediating role of attention deficit in relationship between insomnia and social cognition tasks among nurses in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study. PeerJ, 11: e15508. ISSN 2167-8359

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Abstract

Purpose: Insomnia-related affective functional disorder may negatively affect social cognition such as empathy, altruism, and attitude toward providing care. No previous studies have ever investigated the mediating role of attention deficit in the relationship between insomnia and social cognition.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 664 nurses (M age = 33.03 years; SD ± 6.93 years) from December 2020 to September 2021. They completed the Scale of Attitude towards the Patient (SAtP), the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), a single-item numeric rating scale assessing the increasing severity of attention complaints, and questions relating to socio-demographic information. The analysis was carried out by examining the mediating role of attention deficit in the relationship between insomnia and social cognition.

Results: The prevalence of insomnia symptoms was high (52% insomnia using the AIS). Insomnia was significantly correlated with attention problems (b = 0.18, standard error (SE) = 0.02, p < 0.001). Attention problems were significantly negatively correlated with nurses' attitudes towards patients (b = −0.56, SE = 0.08, p < 0.001), respect for autonomy (b = −0.18, SE = 0.03, p < 0.001), holism (b = −0.14, SE = 0.03, p < 0.001), empathy (b = −0.15, SE = 0.03, p < 0.001), and altruism (b = −0.10, SE = 0.02, p < 0.001). Attention problems indirectly mediated the effect of insomnia on attitudes toward patients (99% CI = −0.10 [−0.16 to −0.05]), respect for autonomy (99% CI = −0.03 [−0.05 to −0.02]), holism (99% CI = −0.02 [−0.04 to −0.01]) empathy (99% CI = −0.03 [−0.04 to −0.01]), and altruism (99% CI = −0.02 [−0.03 to −0.01]).

Conclusion: Nurses with insomnia-related attention problems are likely to have poor explicit social cognition such as attitude toward patients, altruism, empathy, respect for autonomy, and holism.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	PeerJ
Creators:	Manzar, M.D., Kashoo, F., Albougami, A., Alamri, M., Alotaibi, J.S., Alrasheadi, B.A., Almansour, A.M., Ahmad, M., Sirajudeen, M.S., Sikkandar, M.Y. and Griffiths, M.D.
Publisher:	PeerJ
Date:	4 July 2023
Volume:	11
ISSN:	2167-8359
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.7717/peerj.15508 DOI 1778510 Other
Rights:	© 2023 Manzar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	04 Jul 2023 10:06
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2023 10:06
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49316

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