The COVID-19 pandemic: reflections for the field of sleep medicine

Ramar, Kannan

doi:10.5664/jcsm.8580

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“…These issues negatively influence sleep quality, affecting people’s daytime resilience and emotional functioning. In this sense, studies have turned their attention to identifying changes in sleep patterns of specific populational groups to evaluate the extent of the problem 1 . The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted young people’s sleep quality; hence, interventions to promote family well-being should have been provided since the beginning of the period of isolation 2 .…”

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Adolescents’ sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Silva¹,

Melo²,

Studart-Pereira³

2022

Sleep Sci

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Objective: To assess the sleep quality of Brazilian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Observational, analytical, cross-sectional study with data from a questionnaire on individual characteristics and health, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). 153 adolescents participated -61.4% females, 38.6% males, aged 13 to 18 years, enrolled at school. Results: 58.2% worsened their sleep quality during the pandemic. In the PSQI, 22 (14.4%) had a good, 104 (68%), a poor sleep quality, 27 (17.6%), suggestive of sleep disorders. Excessive daytime sleepiness occurred in 44.4% of the students. Significant associations appeared between sleep and decreased school motivation (p = 0.005), and between sleep and sex (p = 0.015). The pandemic affected more the females -25.5% reported worse sleep quality, 67% had PSQI scores suggestive of sleep disorders; 46 (30.1%) students reported stress, anxiety, sadness -76.1% were girls. Discussion: Adolescents had impaired sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic, reinforcing their sleep must be assessed in critical periods.

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Adolescents’ sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Silva¹,

Melo²,

Studart-Pereira³

2022

Sleep Sci

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“…[ 5 ] Not only based on the neuroinflammation [ 21 ] perspective but considering further aspects as circadian rhythm alterations and melatonin levels, [ 22 ] the role of adequate sleep in depression is well grounded. However, the necessity of social distancing and fear of viral infection during the ongoing pandemic has precluded visits to clinics for deeper sleep analysis [ 23 ] such as polysomnographic measures. Thus, alternative methods like those adopted in this study can be valid strategies for clinicians to monitor and provide guidance for people suffering from depression in the present.…”

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Sleep quality, latency, and sleepiness are positively correlated with depression symptoms of Brazilians facing the pandemic-associated stressors of COVID-19

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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus has implicated on mental health and psychopathological sequelae through viral infection. Suggestively, the pandemic-associated stressors (e.g., isolation, fear of illness, inadequate information and supply) may affect the sleep and feedback the depression symptoms, ultimately decreasing the immune system and offering further opportunities for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection. Nevertheless, this association still requires investigation. Therefore, this study aimed to correlate the depression symptoms with sleep variables from subjects facing the restrictions of the ongoing pandemic in Brazil. One hundred sixty-two volunteers (age = 31 ± 13 years; body mass = 69.8 ± 14.9 kg; height = 168 ± 9 cm) answered the Beck Depression Inventory, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index/Epworth Sleepiness Scale for determination of depression symptoms and sleep variables, respectively. Significant and positive correlations were obtained between Beck score and sleep quality ( r = 0.53; P = .000), sleep latency ( r = 0.29; P = .000), and sleepiness ( r = 0.22; P = .003), but not with sleep time ( r = –0.10; P = .175). This report concluded that Brazilians struggling with pandemic-associated stressors with high depression symptoms may have negative impacts on sleep, mainly regarding its quality, latency, and sleepiness.

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“…Lo cual se ha demostrado con el uso de teleasistencia para los pacientes con CPAP, no se debe pasar por alto el apoyo multidisciplinario para el SAHOS, y los elementos de apoyo al tratamiento como: aparatos orales o maxilares, que algunos autores plantean en esta pandemia, como primera línea de tratamiento el uso de estos elementos en apoyo con odontopediatria y cirugía maxilofacial (57,58). Nuestras direcciones estratégicas deben dirigirse a las poblaciones con mayor riesgo, niños con comorbilidades faciales, orales, obesidad, dismorfias sindromicas, y sobre todo aquellos niños en comunidades aisladas de las ciudades capitales, para tener acceso a internet, elementos de salud electrónica, amigables y fáciles de usar, costo -efectivos y accequibles por la familia o por las IPS primarias (59).…”

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Recomendaciones para la realización de estudios de sueño pediátricos durante la pandemia covid-19

Bolaños-Almeida¹,

Saldaña

Mahecha³

2020

Pediatria.

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En Colombia, con la actual pandemia por COVID-19, algunas unidades de sueño suspendieron la realización de estudios de sueño en población pediátrica, debido al probable contagio y propagación. De acuerdo con las autoridades competentes, desde junio del 2020, Colombia se encuentra en la fase de mitigación del COVID-19 y las medidas obligatorias de prevención implementadas por el gobierno colombiano como el lavado de manos frecuente, el uso de tapabocas en sitios públicos, el distanciamiento físico y social y el confinamiento de la mayoría de la población en sus hogares, han ayudado a reducir la velocidad de propagación del virus. Sin embargo, debido a la grave crisis económica causada por la pandemia, las autoridades sanitarias locales han emitido varias medidas de bioseguridad para retornar poco a poco a una relativa normalidad, incluyendo la prestación de servicios de salud a pacientes no COVID-19. El objetivo de este artículo es realizar recomendaciones para que las unidades de sueño locales implementen las medidas de bioseguridad mínimas que permitan el reinicio y adecuado desarrollo de los estudios de sueño en población pediátrica. Estas recomendaciones se basan en las estrategias de mitigación establecidas por las autoridades sanitarias locales, en una revisión de la literatura relevante disponible y en las recomendaciones de algunas asociaciones de medicina del sueño.

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The COVID-19 pandemic: reflections for the field of sleep medicine

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Adolescents’ sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Adolescents’ sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sleep quality, latency, and sleepiness are positively correlated with depression symptoms of Brazilians facing the pandemic-associated stressors of COVID-19

Recomendaciones para la realización de estudios de sueño pediátricos durante la pandemia covid-19

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