Sleep pattern in the US and 16 European countries during the COVID-19 outbreak using crowdsourced smartphone data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To stop the spread of the new coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19), many countries had completely locked down. This lockdown restricted the everyday life of the affected residents and changed their mobility pattern, but its effects on sleep pattern were largely unknown.

Methods

Here, utilizing one of the largest crowdsourced database (Sleep as Android), we analyzed the sleep pattern of 25 217 users with 1 352 513 sleep records between 1 January and 29 April 2020 in the US and 16 European countries (Germany, UK, Spain, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Czech, Sweden, Austria, Poland and Switzerland) with more than 100 records in all days of 2020.

Results

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the sleeping pattern before and

SUBMITTER: Lee PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717335 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature