Circadian disturbances, sleep difficulties and the COVID-19 pandemic

MA Salehinejad, A Azarkolah, E Ghanavati, MA Nitsche - Sleep medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed extraordinary and unpredictable changes on our
lifestyle for an unknown duration. Consequently, core aspects of wellbeing including …

[HTML][HTML] Myopia progression in children during home confinement in the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis

D Laan, ETC Tan, PIH in het Veld, HM Jellema… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose Myopia is a growing pandemic, especially in children, who risk low vision later in
life. Home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic may have increased myopia …

Reliability and validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index among frontline COVID-19 health care workers using classical test theory and item response theory

L Wang, YX Wu, YQ Lin, L Wang, ZN Zeng… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - jcsm.aasm.org
Study Objectives: The applicability of sleep-related scales to frontline medical staff for the
COVID-19 pandemic has not been fully proved, so sleep survey results lack credibility and …

Associations of home confinement during COVID-19 lockdown with subsequent health and well-being among UK adults

K Shiba, RG Cowden, V Counted, TJ VanderWeele… - Current …, 2024 - Springer
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Kingdom (UK) government introduced public
health safety measures to mitigate the spikes in infection rates. This included stay-at-home …

Stuck in a lockdown: Dreams, bad dreams, nightmares, and their relationship to stress, depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic

E Solomonova, C Picard-Deland, IL Rapoport… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background An upsurge in dream and nightmare frequency has been noted since the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and research shows increases in levels of stress …

Social jetlag changes during the COVID-19 pandemic as a predictor of insomnia–a multi-national survey study

LEM Brandão, T Martikainen, I Merikanto… - Nature and Science …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Lifestyle and work habits have been drastically altered by restrictions due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Whether the associated changes in sleep timing modulate the risk of …

Psychotic-like experiences during COVID-19 lockdown among adolescents: prevalence, risk and protective factors

D Wang, L Zhou, C Chen, M Sun - Schizophrenia Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Although plenty of evidence has shown the huge negative impact of COVID-19 on
individuals' mental health conditions, little is known about its impact on the psychotic-like …

Sleep during “lockdown” highlighted the need to rethink the concept of weekend catch-up sleep

AA Putilov - Sleep and breathing, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Many people believe in their ability to sleep for longer time on weekends to make
up for sleep lost due to early wakeups on weekdays. This widely held belief was not …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring Daily Sleep, Mood, and affect using Digital Technologies and wearables: a systematic review

R Hickman, TC D'Oliveira, A Davies, S Shergill - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Sleep and affective states are closely intertwined. Nevertheless, previous
methods to evaluate sleep-affect associations have been limited by poor ecological validity …

[HTML][HTML] Slee** poorly is robustly associated with a tendency to engage in spontaneous waking thought

AL Cárdenas-Egúsquiza, D Berntsen - Consciousness and Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
We spend approximately-one third of our lives slee**, and spontaneous thoughts
dominate around 20–50% of our waking life, but little is known about the relation between …