Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34608693›Full record

ArticleJournal of sleep research2022

Age and chronotype influenced sleep timing changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ryan Bottary, Eric C Fields, Elizabeth A Kensinger, Tony J Cunningham

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of sleep research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Individual associations of self-reported sleep duration, sleep quality, chronotype and social jet lag with infectious disease risk.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Sleep Quality and Lifestyle in Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ryan BottaryDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4495-5354
Eric C FieldsDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Elizabeth A KensingerDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Tony J CunninghamDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.

Funding

TRAINING IN SLEEP, CIRCADIAN &RESPIRATORY NEUROBIOLOGYT32HL007901 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Charles A Czeisler · 1998 to 2026
$18.5M
Quantitative Neuroscience: Tools for Bridging Levels of AnalysisT32NS007292 · NINDS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI GINA G TURRIGIANO · 1986 to 2026
$12.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007901NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social restrictions necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) profoundly changed how we socialised, worked and, for students, attended classes. Interestingly, significant sleep pattern shifts occurred in the context of pandemic-related social restrictions. Whether age and chronotype influenced these sleep pattern changes remains poorly understood. In this pre-registered (https://osf.io/4a3fx), web-based study, United States residents reported, in one-time assessments, demographic information, self-reported chronotype using the reduced Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire, and pre-pandemic and pandemic first wave sleep timing using the Ultrashort Munich Chronotype Questionnaire. Participants reported sleep phase delays, reduced social jetlag (SJL) and reduced social sleep restriction (SSR) during the first wave of the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic. Pandemic-related changes in SJL and SSR varied with participants' age and self-reported chronotype. Young adults reported the greatest reductions in SJL and young adults and individuals with evening chronotypes reported the greatest reductions in SSR. We conclude that these groups may have been the most vulnerable to social-biological sleep timing desynchrony under pre-pandemic social, occupational, and educational schedules.

Indexed as

COVID-19Circadian RhythmHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2SleepSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultagechronotypeCOVID-19Munich chronotype questionnairesocial jetlagsocial sleep restriction

Identifiers

PMID34608693
PMCPMC8646670

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.