Circadian disturbances, sleep difficulties and the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed extraordinary and unpredictable changes on our lifestyle for an unknown duration. Consequently, core aspects of wellbeing including behavior, emotion, cognition, and social interactions are negatively affected. Sleep and circadian rhythms, with an extensive impact on physiology, behavior, emotion, and cognition are affected too. We provided an updated overview of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on circadian rhythms and sleep based on the results of published studies (n = 48) in three sections. First, we focus on circadian misalignment due to the pandemic in the general population (including shift workers, health staff, students) and COVID-19 patients and summarize the most critically contributing factors to circadian misalignment. Next, we address slee

SUBMITTER: Salehinejad MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277544 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature