Sleep in university students prior to and during COVID-19 Stay-at-Home orders.
Curr Biol
; 30(14): R797-R798, 2020 07 20.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-592063
ABSTRACT
Sleep health has multiple dimensions including duration, regularity, timing, and quality [1-4]. The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak led to Stay-at-Home orders and Social Distancing Requirements in countries throughout the world to limit the spread of COVID-19. We investigated sleep behaviors prior to and during Stay-at-Home orders in 139 university students (aged 22.2 ± 1.7 years old [±SD]) while respectively taking the same classes in-person and remotely. During Stay-at-Home, nightly time in bed devoted to sleep (TIB, a proxy for sleep duration with regard to public health recommendations [5]) increased by â¼30 min during weekdays and by â¼24 mins on weekends and regularity of sleep timing improved by â¼12 min. Sleep timing became later by â¼50 min during weekdays and â¼25 min on weekends, and thus the difference between weekend and weekday sleep timing decreased - hence reducing the amount of social jetlag [6,7]. Further, we find individual differences in the change of TIB devoted to sleep such that students with shorter TIB at baseline before the first COVID-19 cases emerged locally had larger increases in weekday and weekend TIB during Stay-at-Home. The percentage of participants that reported 7 h or more sleep per night, the minimum recommended sleep duration for adults to maintain health [5] - including immune health - increased from 84% to 92% for weekdays during Stay-at-Home versus baseline. Understanding the factors underlying such changes in sleep health behaviors could help inform public health recommendations with the goal of improving sleep health during and following the Stay-at-Home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Sleep
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Students
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Communicable Disease Control
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Coronavirus Infections
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Curr Biol
Journal subject:
Biology
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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