ArticleSleep medicine2021
COVID-19 and sleep patterns in adolescents and young adults.
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- Changes in Sleep Duration and Sleep Timing in the General Population from before to during the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- An observatory on changes in dreaming during a pandemic: a living systematic review (part 1).Journal of sleep research · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on movement behaviours of children and adolescents: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Lengthening sleep reduces pain in childhood arthritis: a crossover randomised controlled trial.RMD open · 2023Trial
- A Behavioral Economic Characterization of the Impact of the COVID-19 Quarantine on Reinforcer Diversity, Behavior, and Health.Perspectives on behavior science · 2026Review
- The Effects of Asthma, Anxiety, and Depression on Sleep Outcomes Among Youth in Puerto Rico.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2026Article
- Sleep duration and quality trajectories during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: a Canadian nationally representative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Comparative analysis of sleep duration and stroke prevalence in China and the U.S. before and during COVID-19.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Article
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- A longitudinal study to COVID-19 infection among university students: Physical fitness changes and psychological responses.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
- Inequities in sleep duration and quality among adolescents in Canada.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Sleeping behaviors are determined by lockdown and not work-from-home arrangements.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Chronotype Differences and Symptom Network Dynamics of Post-Pandemic Sleep in Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Early life adversity and adolescent sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- Impact of School Start Time Delays and Learning Modality on Sleep Timing and Duration During COVID-19.Behavioral sleep medicine · 2024Article
- Energy drink consumption and sleep parameters in college and university students: a national cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- The relationship between sleep disturbances and post-traumatic stress disorder symptomatology in university students.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Changes of adolescent sleep patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.Revista de saude publica · 2024Article
- The effect of smartphone addiction on the relationship between psychological stress reaction and bedtime procrastination in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveIn March 2020, the world experienced a global pandemic, which involved the shutdown of schools or a transposition to remote teaching in most countries. The objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic related lockdown on sleep patterns and sleep quality in adolescents and young adults.
methodsAn online survey was conducted in June 2020 with adolescents and young adults (n = 498) aged 12-25 years. Participants had to answer questions on sleep, first retrospectively, referring to the time prior to the pandemic, and then referring to the time during the pandemic.
resultsA pronounced shift towards later sleep combined with an increase in sleep duration was found during the pandemic. However, these changes in sleep habits were more pronounced in adolescents than in young adults and seem to occur mostly during weekdays compared to weekends. During the pandemic, teens also reported an improvement in daytime sleepiness and subjective sleep quality, while young adults reported an increase in sleep difficulties associated with sleep onset difficulties, nocturnal and early morning awakenings, and nightmares.
conclusionsThe COVID-19 related lockdown seems to have had a beneficial effect on sleep in adolescents. In young adults, benefits are not as obvious. These results support that later school start times would be beneficial for adolescents. However, in young adults it could be important to investigate the effects of other situational or interindividual factors (stress, lifestyle habits, employment, etc.).
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