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Sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic by population: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Study objectives No systematic review or meta-analysis has yet been conducted to examine the impact of the pandemic on the prevalence of sleep problems among the general population, health care workers, or patients with COVID-19. Therefore, this systematic review was conducted to assess the impact and prevalence of sleep problems among those categories.Methods American Psychological Association PsycINFO, Cochrane, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), EBSCOhost, EMBASE, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, ProQuest Medical, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Web of Science from November 1, 2019 to July 5, 2020 were used. Additionally, 5 preprints servers (medRxiv.org; preprints.org; psyarxiv.com; arXiv.org; biorxiv.org) were also searched for papers accepted after peer review but not yet published and indexed. There was no language restriction. The random-effect models meta-analysis model was used with the DerSimonian and Laird methodology.Results Forty-four papers, involving a total of 54,231 participants from 13 countries, were judged relevant and contributed to the systematic review and meta-analysis of sleep problems during COVID-19. The global pooled prevalence rate of sleep problems among all populations was 35.7% (95% confidence interval, 29.4-42.4%). Patients with COVID-19 appeared to be the most affected group, with a pooled rate of 74.8% (95% confidence interval, 28.7-95.6%). Health care workers and the general population had comparative rates of sleep problems, with rates of 36.0% (95% confidence interval, 21.1-54.2%) and 32.3% (95% confidence interval, 25.3-40.2%), respectively.Conclusions The prevalence of sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic is high and affects approximately 40% of people from the general and health care populations. Patients with active COVID-19 appeared to have a higher prevalence rates of sleep problems.
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BackgroundThe potential impact of Covid-19 on CNS and psychiatric sequels
Dehghani, A., Zokaei, E., Kahani, S. M., Alavinejad, E., Dehghani, M., Meftahi, G. H., & Afarinesh, M. R. (2022) · Asian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103097 · Cited by 38
“modulate the responses that maintain homeostasis (Altena et al., 2020; Ibarra-Coronado et al., 2015; Jahrami et al., 2021).”
Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mexican Population: A Systematic Review
Hernández‐Díaz, Y., Mendoza, A. D. G., Ramos-Méndez, M. Á., Juárez‐Rojop, I. E., Tovilla‐Zárate, C. A., González‐Castro, T. B., López‐Narváez, M. L., & Nicolini, H. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19116953 · Cited by 37
Scarpelli, S., Gorgoni, M., Alfonsi, V., Annarumma, L., Natale, V. D., Pezza, E., & Gennaro, L. D. (2021) · Journal of Sleep Research · doi:10.1111/jsr.13429 · Cited by 37
“In addition, increased sleep disturbances and hypnotic medications were observed (Jahrami et al., 2021).”
BackgroundSleep in Older Adults and Its Possible Relations With COVID-19
Pires, G. N., Ishikura, I. A., Xavier, S. D., Petrella, C., Piovezan, R. D., Xerfan, E. M. S., Andersen, M. L., & Tufik, S. (2021) · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnagi.2021.647875 · Cited by 38
Viselli, L., Salfi, F., D’Atri, A., Amicucci, G., & Ferrara, M. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph182413346 · Cited by 44
“A heavily affected behavior among the general population was sleep [9].”
BackgroundKalamara, E. I., Pataka, A., Boutou, A., Panagiotidou, E. S., Georgopoulou, A., Ballas, E. T., Chloros, D. A., Metallidis, S., Kioumis, I. P., & Pitsiou, G. (2022) · Journal of Personalized Medicine · doi:10.3390/jpm12111909 · Cited by 39
Cai, H. X., Chen, P., Jin, Y., Zhang, Q., Cheung, T. C. C., Ng, C. H., Xiang, Y., & Feng, Y. (2024) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-023-02654-5 · Cited by 36
“%) in the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic [13].”
BackgroundJiang, A., Rosario, M., Stahl, S., Gill, J., & Rusch, H. L. (2021) · Current Psychiatry Reports · doi:10.1007/s11920-021-01272-6 · Cited by 35
“, comparing app-based mindfulness meditation to in-person mindfulness meditation) Outcome Validated subjective or objective measure of sleep quality with pre-intervention and post-intervention assessments No validated measure of sleep quality or only a pre-intervention assessment Study design Randomized controlled tri…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialBai, W., Zhao, Y.-J., An, F., Zhang, Q., Sha, S., Cheung, T. C. C., Cheng, C. P.-W., Ng, C. H., & Xiang, Y. (2021) · Nature and Science of Sleep · doi:10.2147/nss.s326880 · Cited by 35
“32%,(12) which was higher than the general population.(13) To reduce the risk of insomnia and develop effective measures to treat Correspondence: Yu-Tao Xiang Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, 1/F, Building E12, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, People’s Republic of China Tel +853 8822-4223 Fax…”
BackgroundThe Positive Effects of Poria cocos Extract on Quality of Sleep in Insomnia Rat Models
Kim, H., Park, I.-S., Park, K.-R., Park, S., Kim, Y., & Park, B. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19116629 · Cited by 33
Laddu, D., Biggs, E., Kaar, J. L., Khadanga, S., Alman, R., & Arena, R. A. (2022) · Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases · doi:10.1016/j.pcad.2022.11.017 · Cited by 36
Prevalence of Sleep Problems Among Chinese Medical Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Sun, Y., Wang, H., Jin, T., Qiu, F., & Wang, X. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.753419 · Cited by 36
Cai, H. X., Zhao, Y.-J., Xing, X., Tian, T., Qian, W., Liang, S., Wang, Z., Cheung, T. C. C., Su, Z., Tang, Y., et al. (2022) · Nature and Science of Sleep · doi:10.2147/nss.s367974 · Cited by 33
Alzhrani, A. M., Aboalshamat, K. T., Badawoud, A. M., Abdouh, I. M., Badri, H. M., Quronfulah, B. S., Mahmoud, M. A., & Rajeh, M. T. (2023) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280681 · Cited by 40
Boston College daily sleep and well-being survey data during early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
Cunningham, T. J., Fields, E. C., & Kensinger, E. A. (2021) · Scientific Data · doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00886-y · Cited by 33
Pre-sleep arousal and sleep quality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
Gorgoni, M., Scarpelli, S., Mangiaruga, A., Alfonsi, V., Bonsignore, M. R., Fanfulla, F., Ferini‐Strambi, L., Nobili, L., Plazzi, G., Gennaro, L. D., et al. (2021) · Sleep Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2021.10.006 · Cited by 32
“Indeed, among the instruments used to assess selfreported sleep features during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI [4]) was the most frequently used [3].”
InfluentialSleep dissatisfaction is a potential marker for nomophobia in adults
Jahrami, H., Fekih‐Romdhane, F., Saif, Z., Alhaj, O. A., Al-Rasheed, M. M., Pandi-Perumal, S. R., BaHammam, A. S., & Vitiello, M. V. (2022) · Sleep Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2022.07.001 · Cited by 37
Self-citationPellitteri, G., Surcinelli, A., Martino, M. D., Fabris, M., Janes, F., Bax, F., Marini, A., Milanič, R., Piani, A., Isola, M., et al. (2022) · Frontiers in Neurology · doi:10.3389/fneur.2022.929480 · Cited by 32
Sleep timing, workplace well-being and mental health in healthcare workers.
Coelho, J., Lucas, G., Micoulaud-Franchi, J., Tran, B., Yon, D., Taillard, J., d’Incau, E., Philip, P., Boyer, L., & Fond, G. (2023) · Sleep Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2023.09.013 · Cited by 28
Sleep Deprivation, Immune Suppression and SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Ragnoli, B., Pochetti, P., Pignatti, P., Barbieri, M., Mondini, L., Ruggero, L., Trotta, L., Montuschi, P., & Malerba, M. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19020904 · Cited by 32
“[89] showed that male sex and older age in the COVID-19 subgroup were associated with higher rate of sleep disturbances.”
BackgroundThe role of sleep and dreams in long‐ COVID
Scarpelli, S., Santis, A. D., Alfonsi, V., Gorgoni, M., Morin, C. M., Espie, C. A., Merikanto, I., Chung, F. F., Penzel, T., Bjorvatn, B., et al. (2022) · Journal of Sleep Research · doi:10.1111/jsr.13789 · Cited by 33
“%) of sleep disorders (Jahrami et al., 2021).”
BackgroundResultThe Impact of Quarantine on Sleep Quality and Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Al-Rasheed, M. M., Alkadir, A. M., Shuqiran, K. B., Al-Aqeel, S., Jahrami, H., & BaHammam, A. S. (2021) · Nature and Science of Sleep · doi:10.2147/nss.s313373 · Cited by 32
“2%) in the general population and healthcare worker, respectively.(3) Other reviews on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health found an increase in the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorders, worsening of psychiatric symptoms, increased depression/depressive symptoms, psychological distress, post-traumatic stress…”
BackgroundSelf-citationKoban, K., Neureiter, A., Stević, A., & Matthes, J. (2021) · Computers in Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.chb.2021.107175 · Cited by 50
Astrocytes and the Psychiatric Sequelae of COVID-19: What We Learned from the Pandemic
Steardo, L., Steardo, L., & Scuderi, C. (2022) · Neurochemical Research · doi:10.1007/s11064-022-03709-7 · Cited by 34
Guo, N., Tsun Luk, T., Wu, Y., Lai, A. Y.-K., Li, Y., Cheung, D. Y. T., Wong, J. Y.-H., Fong, D. Y. T., & Wang, M. P. (2022) · Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107408 · Cited by 34
Impact of COVID-19 Infection on Quality of Sleep
Choudhry, A. A., Shahzeen, F., Choudhry, S. A., Batool, N., Murtaza, F., Dilip, A., Rani, M., & Chandnani, A. (2021) · Cureus · doi:10.7759/cureus.18182 · Cited by 30
Disrupted Sleep During a Pandemic
Kumar, N., & Gupta, R. M. (2022) · Sleep Medicine Clinics · doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2021.10.006 · Cited by 33
“Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection make the largest proportion of the group in which sleep quality was poor during pandemic (nearly three-fourth reported).(11) This is in contrast to another metaanalysis, which reported that only 34% of patients having SARS-CoV-2 infection had disturbed sleep or poor quality sleep.”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSleepEGAN: A GAN-enhanced ensemble deep learning model for imbalanced classification of sleep stages
Cheng, X., Huang, K., Zou, Y., & Ma, S. (2024) · Biomedical Signal Processing and Control · doi:10.1016/j.bspc.2024.106020 · Cited by 28
Ebrahim, A. H., Dhahi, A., Husain, M. A., & Jahrami, H. (2021) · Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · doi:10.18295/squmj.6.2021.081 · Cited by 43
Self-citationConte, F., Rosa, O. D., Rescott, M. L., Arabia, T. P., D’Onofrio, P., Lustro, A., Malloggi, S., Molinaro, D., Spagnoli, P., Giganti, F., et al. (2021) · Journal of Sleep Research · doi:10.1111/jsr.13519 · Cited by 28
“Early evidence from the Covid- 19 crisis has shown wide- ranging disruptions to personal schedules, psychological health and sleep throughout the world, with pooled data from international populations placing the prevalence of sleep problems at 35.7% (for a review, see Jahrami et al., 2021).”
BackgroundInfluentialImpairment of executive functions due to sleep alterations: An integrative review on the use of P300
Lima, N. C., Kirov, R., & de Almondes, K. M. (2022) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2022.906492 · Cited by 29
“Considering the growing prevalence of sleep alterations and sleep disorders worldwide (Jahrami et al., 2021), as well as the cognitive impairment related to them, the present study intends to review pertaining literature regarding the use and efficiency of P300 to assess impairment of the executive functions under sle…”
Backgroundvan der Velden, P. G., Marchand, M. A. G., Das, M., Muffels, R. J. A., & Bosmans, M. W. G. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0276834 · Cited by 28
COVID-19 and Sleep Disturbances: A Literature Review of Clinical Evidence
Shaik, L., Boike, S., Ramar, K., Subramanian, S., & Surani, S. (2023) · Medicina · doi:10.3390/medicina59050818 · Cited by 26
“Other variables include gender, occupational status, age, medical conditions, lifestyle changes involving health behavior (eg, sedentary behavior, maladaptive eating habits) [8,17,112].”
BackgroundInfluentialMusetti, A., Gori, A., Alessandra, A., Topino, E., Terrone, G., Plazzi, G., Cacioppo, M., & Franceschini, C. (2022) · Nature and Science of Sleep · doi:10.2147/nss.s348242 · Cited by 34
OLIVE, L. S., Sciberras, E., Berkowitz, T. S., Hoare, E., Telford, R. M., O'Neil, A. E., Mikocka‐Walus, A. A., Evans, S., Hutchinson, D. M., McGillivray, J., et al. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.774858 · Cited by 31
Alfonsi, V., Gorgoni, M., Scarpelli, S., Zivi, P., Sdoia, S., Mari, E., Quaglieri, A., Ferlazzo, F., Giannini, A. M., & Gennaro, L. D. (2021) · Journal of Sleep Research · doi:10.1111/jsr.13500 · Cited by 26
“The pattern of our results is consistent with previous literature (for a review, see Jahrami et al., 2021).”
BackgroundResultSocial Isolation and Sleep: Manifestation During COVID-19 Quarantines
Pilcher, J. J., Dorsey, L. L., Galloway, S. M., & Erikson, D. N. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.810763 · Cited by 29
Alhasani, M., Alkhawaji, A., & Orji, R. (2022) · Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies · doi:10.1155/2022/7376748 · Cited by 32
Paul, E., & Fancourt, D. E. (2022) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-022-14123-7 · Cited by 36
“This is important to ascertain, as negative changes have been observed in many of these health behaviours during the pandemic [21, 22] If such behavioural factors are found to increase risk for long COVID it could help inform public health programmes designed to reduce the risk of further cases of long COVID.”
BackgroundSleep and dreaming in the light of reactive and predictive homeostasis
Simor, P., Peigneux, P., & Bódizs, R. (2023) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105104 · Cited by 34
“A wealth of studies implied that home confinement under stressful environmental conditions had a pronounced influence not only on sleep (Gorgoni et al., 2022; Jahrami et al., 2021; Simor et al., 2021) but also on dreaming (Gorgoni et al., 2022, 2021; Pesonen et al., 2020).”
BackgroundBoucher, V. G., Dahl, M., Lee, J., Faulkner, G., Beauchamp, M. R., & Puterman, E. M. (2025) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2025.01.109 · Cited by 30
Metadata
- Authors
- Jahrami, H., BaHammam, A. S., Bragazzi, N. L., Saif, Z., Faris, M., & Vitiello, M. V.
- Affiliations
- Ministry of Health (BH)
- King Saud University (SA)
- York University (CA)
- University of Sharjah (AE)
- University of Washington (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
- Published
- 2021-02
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 299-313
- ISSN
- 1550-9389 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-9397
- PMC
- PMC7853219
- OpenAlex
- W3097605919
- Cited by
- 751
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 32 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 90 · 2023: 180 · 2022: 268 · 2021: 124
- FWCI
- 11.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
- Keywords
- sleep disorders, COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers, COVID-19 patients, general population
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Quarantine, Sleep Wake Disorders, Pandemics
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