Subjective sleep quality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Brazilian rural population.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prior studies have examined sleep during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but have few compared sleep measured both during and prior to COVID. We examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective sleep quality in general and separately by gender and age (<50 vs. ≥50 years). Further, we compared sleep quality between those who did and did not follow quarantine orders.

Methods

This sample is from the Baependi Heart Study, a family-based cohort of adults in South-eastern Brazil. Longitudinal data were from 417 individuals who completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) twice: between January 2010 and September 2014 (pre-COVID) and during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order March-June, 2020. Cross-sectional analysis included 800 participa

SUBMITTER: Taporoski TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8675050 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature