Abstract
Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic incited unprecedented global restrictions on society’s behavior. Home detachment and isolation measures applied during the COVID-19 pandemic can result in problems with sleep quality. It is an important measure to reduce the risk of infection from the COVID-19 outbreak. Objective: to investigate the existence of a difference between the quality of sleep before and during the home distance imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: cross-sectional web-based survey was sent using different conventional social media to collect data from the study population. The evaluated group was composed of 124 subjects, 57 of whom were male and 67 were female from the city of Rio Branco / AC. For this study, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire (PSQI-BR) and a socio-demographic questionnaire were used. The volunteers received a link along with the description and purpose of the study. Finally, data analysis was performed using SPSS 22.0 software. Results: sleep quality worsened significantly during home distance in four sleep components (subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep drowsiness and overall PSQI score). During social distance, poor sleep was greater among respondents (OR = 5.68; 95% CI = 1.80–17.82; p = 0.70). Conclusion: the results indicated that there was a significant difference between the quality of sleep before and during home detachment and sleep disturbance and the subjective quality of sleep before and during the period of the outbreak of COVID-19 were the components that most worsened in the state of sleep
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has alarming implications for individual and collective health, including people’s emotional and social functioning[1]
What do these findings mean? The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the quality of sleep before and during home distancing and sleep disturbance and the subjective quality of sleep before and during the period of the COVID-19 outbreak were the components that showed the most worsening in the state of sleep
A brief presentation informed the participants about the objectives of the study and the electronic informed consent form (ICF) was asked for each participant to mark in the field “I accept to participate” or “I do not accept to participate” before starting the investigation
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has alarming implications for individual and collective health, including people’s emotional and social functioning[1]. From the end of December 2019, the disease began to spread in central China. Outside of China it quickly spread across the world, where about 13,570 patients were diagnosed with infection and 270 patients died of infection with this new virus[2]. Home distancing has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to minimize the speed of disease spread[3]. Due to COVID-19’s long incubation period, ease of transmission, high mortality rate and lack of pharmacological interventions, governments had to implement physical distance interventions to slow the spread of the virus[4]. Essential to contain the virus, these interventions can negatively affect mental health, as observed after previous epidemics, such as the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the H1N1 outbreak in 20095
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