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Insomnia symptoms during the early and late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Identifying complementary and alternative medicine recommendations for insomnia treatment and care: a systematic review and critical assessment of comprehensive clinical practice guidelines.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Trends in Sedative-Hypnotic Prescription Among Insomnia Patients: A Nationwide Cohort Study From 2010 to 2022 in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Sleep Disturbance and Its Association With Purchasing Behavior of COVID-19 Medicine Among the Public After the Adjustment of Zero-COVID Policy in China: Results From a Web-Based Survey Study.Interactive journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Too much social media to sleep: the chained mediation effect of information strain and depressive symptoms on the relationship between social media overload and insomnia.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Two-years mothering into the pandemic: Impact of the three COVID-19 waves in the Argentinian postpartum women's mental health.PloS one · 2025Article
- Investigation on the association between college students' smartphone-related behaviors and sleep quality during COVID-19.PloS one · 2025Article
- Does COVID-19 Infection Continue to Affect Self-Reported and Objective Sleep? A Longitudinal Study of Good Sleepers.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic: prevalence and correlates in a multi-ethnic population Singapore.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Understanding Fatigue, Insomnia, and COVID-19 PTSS Among Mainland Chinese During Initial Post-Zero-COVID Infection Wave: A Multi-Group Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prevalence and network structure of depression, insomnia and suicidality among mental health professionals who recovered from COVID-19: a national survey in China.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- The impact of distance education on the socialization of college students in the Covid-19 era: problems in communication and impact on mental health.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on risks and deaths of non-communicable diseases in the Western Pacific region.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Review
- Gut microbiota: a potential influencer of insomnia occurring after COVID-19 infection.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Prevalence and associated factors of depression, anxiety and stress among clinical therapists in China in the context of early COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The relationships between the family impact and distress of the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic, parent insomnia, infant temperamental negative affectivity, and parent-reported infant sleep: a path analysis.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024Article
- Psychological Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An In-Depth Exploration of Anxiety, Depression, and Insomnia and the Influence of Quarantine Measures on Daily Life.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Impact of insomnia on mental status among chronic disease patients during Covid-19 pandemic.Ethics, medicine, and public health · 2023Article
- Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder risk post-COVID-19 in 12 countries in Latin America: a cross-sectional survey.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence suggests that the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the prevention/control measures for COVID-19 may cause insomnia during the acute phase of COVID-19 pandemic in China. However, it is unclear whether insomnia sustains during the later phases of the pandemic.
methodsWe searched PubMed/Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO and China National Knowledge Infrastructure from the 27th December 2019 to the 2nd February 2021. As early stage studies on COVID-19 pandemic in China were defined as those conducted prior to April 1st, 2020, while late stage studies were those conducted after April 1st, 2020.
resultsA total of 98 studies with 193,889 participants were included. The pooled prevalence of insomnia symptoms among all populations was 39.1% (95% CI 36.2-42.0%); the pooled prevalence of insomnia symptoms during the early and late stages of COVID-19 in China were 37.0% (95% CI 34.1-39.9%) and 41.8% (95% CI 33.6-50.0%), respectively. Importantly, there was no significant difference regarding the prevalence of insomnia symptoms between the early and late stages of COVID-19. Meta-regression showed that healthcare workers, COVID-19 patients, patients with chronic medical conditions and patients with mental disorders had a higher prevalence of insomnia symptoms compared to the general population. This association remained significant in healthcare workers and patients with chronic medical conditions after adjusting for age, gender, areas of high or low prevalence of COVID-19 cases, anxiety and depression.
conclusionsOver one third of our sample present insomnia symptoms during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic in China. Interestingly, prevalence of insomnia symptoms sustains high during the late stage of the pandemic despite the control of the disease and the amelioration of its adverse effects. Our findings suggest that insomnia symptoms related to COVID-19 appear to persist of over time.
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