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SynthesisJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2021

Sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic by population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Haitham Jahrami, Ahmed S BaHammam, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Zahra Saif, MoezAlIslam Faris, Michael V Vitiello

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Synthesis in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 375 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

375 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 763 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Haitham JahramiMinistry of Health, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Ahmed S BaHammamDepartment of Medicine, College of Medicine, University Sleep Disorders Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nicola Luigi BragazziLaboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Zahra SaifMinistry of Health, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
MoezAlIslam FarisDepartment of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences/ Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Michael V VitielloPsychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine, and Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Ministry of Health · BHKing Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology · SAUniversity of Sharjah · AEUniversity of Washington · USYork University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

STUDY

objectivesNo systematic review or meta-analysis has yet been conducted to examine the impact of the pandemic on the prevalence of sleep problems among the general population, health care workers, or patients with COVID-19. Therefore, this systematic review was conducted to assess the impact and prevalence of sleep problems among those categories.

methodsAmerican Psychological Association PsycINFO, Cochrane, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EBSCOhost, EMBASE, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, ProQuest Medical, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science from November 1, 2019 to July 5, 2020 were used. Additionally, 5 preprints servers (medRxiv.org; preprints.org; psyarxiv.com; arXiv.org; biorxiv.org) were also searched for papers accepted after peer review but not yet published and indexed. There was no language restriction. The random-effect models meta-analysis model was used with the DerSimonian and Laird methodology.

resultsForty-four papers, involving a total of 54,231 participants from 13 countries, were judged relevant and contributed to the systematic review and meta-analysis of sleep problems during COVID-19. The global pooled prevalence rate of sleep problems among all populations was 35.7% (95% confidence interval, 29.4-42.4%). Patients with COVID-19 appeared to be the most affected group, with a pooled rate of 74.8% (95% confidence interval, 28.7-95.6%). Health care workers and the general population had comparative rates of sleep problems, with rates of 36.0% (95% confidence interval, 21.1-54.2%) and 32.3% (95% confidence interval, 25.3-40.2%), respectively.

conclusionsThe prevalence of sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic is high and affects approximately 40% of people from the general and health care populations. Patients with active COVID-19 appeared to have a higher prevalence rates of sleep problems.

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COVID-19HumansPandemicsQuarantineSARS-CoV-2Sleep Wake Disorderscircadian rhythminsomniapandemicsleep disturbancesleep hygiene

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PMID33108269
PMCPMC7853219
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