Pandemic nightmares: Effects on dream activity of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has critically impacted the world. Recent works have found substantial changes in sleep and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dreams could give us crucial information about people's well-being, so here we have directly investigated the consequences of lockdown on the oneiric activity in a large Italian sample: 5,988 adults completed a web-survey during lockdown. We investigated sociodemographic and COVID-19-related information, sleep quality (by the Medical Outcomes Study-Sleep Scale), mental health (by the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales), dream and nightmare frequency, and related emotional aspects (by the Mannheim Dream Questionnaire). Comparisons between our sample and a population-based sample revealed that Italians are having more frequent nightmares and dre

SUBMITTER: Scarpelli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7994972 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature