Impact of COVID-19 social-distancing on sleep timing and duration during a university semester.

ABSTRACT: Social-distancing directives to contain community transmission of the COVID-19 virus can be expected to affect sleep timing, duration or quality. Remote work or school may increase time available for sleep, with benefits for immune function and mental health, particularly in those individuals who obtain less sleep than age-adjusted recommendations. Young adults are thought to regularly carry significant sleep debt related in part to misalignment between endogenous circadian clock time and social time. We examined the impact of social-distancing measures on sleep in young adults by comparing sleep self-studies submitted by students enrolled in a university course during the 2020 summer session (entirely remote instruction, N = 80) with self-studies submitted by students enrolled in the same

SUBMITTER: Smit AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8075219 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature