Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep and rest-activity rhythms.

ABSTRACT: In modern societies, human rest-activity rhythms and sleep result from the tensions and dynamics between the conflicting poles of external social time (e.g., work hours and leisure activities) and an individual's internal biological time. A mismatch between the two has been suggested to induce 'social jetlag' [1] and 'social sleep restriction', that is, shifts in sleep timing and differences in sleep duration between work days and free days. Social jetlag [2,3] and sleep restrictions [4] have repeatedly been associated with negative consequences on health, mental wellbeing, and performance. In a large-scale quasi-experimental design, we investigated the effects of the phase with the most rigorous COVID-19 restrictions on the relationship between social and biological rhythms as well as sle

SUBMITTER: Blume C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7284244 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature