Sleep in university students prior to and during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders
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Sleep health has multiple dimensions including duration, regularity, timing, and quality [1-4]. The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak led to Stay-at-Home orders and Social Distancing Requirements in countries throughout the world to limit the spread of COVID-19. We investigated sleep behaviors prior to and during Stay-at-Home orders in 139 university students (aged 22.2 ± 1.7 years old [±SD]) while respectively taking the same classes in-person and remotely. During Stay-at-Home, nightly time in bed devoted to sleep (TIB, a proxy for sleep duration with regard to public health recommendations [5]) increased by ∼30 min during weekdays and by ∼24 mins on weekends and regularity of sleep timing improved by ∼12 min. Sleep timing became later by ∼50 min during weekdays and ∼25 min on weekends, and thus the difference between weekend and weekday sleep timing decreased - hence reducing the amount of social jetlag [6,7]. Further, we find individual differences in the change of TIB devoted to sleep such that students with shorter TIB at baseline before the first COVID-19 cases emerged locally had larger increases in weekday and weekend TIB during Stay-at-Home. The percentage of participants that reported 7 h or more sleep per night, the minimum recommended sleep duration for adults to maintain health [5] - including immune health - increased from 84% to 92% for weekdays during Stay-at-Home versus baseline. Understanding the factors underlying such changes in sleep health behaviors could help inform public health recommendations with the goal of improving sleep health during and following the Stay-at-Home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Disrupted routines during the pandemic resulted in significant changes in sleep.
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- Authors
- Wright, K. P., Linton, S. K., Withrow, D., Casiraghi, L., Lanza, S. M., Iglesia, H. D. L., Vetter, C., & Depner, C. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wright, Kenneth P.
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-07
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- R797-R798
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7284257
- OpenAlex
- W3033515734
- Cited by
- 293
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 72 · 2021: 95 · 2020: 25
- FWCI
- 61.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- sleep behavior, COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, social distancing, university students, time in bed, sleep duration, sleep timing, social jetlag, individual differences in sleep, distance education, sleep health
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Circadian Rhythm, Colorado, Communicable Disease Control, Humans, Pneumonia, Viral, Sleep, Students, Universities, Coronavirus Infections, Chronobiology Disorders, Pandemics
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