Articlediamond2021

Sleep in post-COVID-19 recovery period and its impact on different domains of quality of life

75 citations0/0 files storedThe Egyptian Journal of Neurology Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Abstract

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic became a global health problem affecting the life of millions of people all over the world. The effects of this pandemic were not only on the physical and medical aspects but also on the psychological issues including anxiety disorders, depressive manifestations, sleep problems and others. Sleep disorders were very commonly reported during the novel Coronavirus-19 pandemic either in the acute phase of COVID-19 infection or after recovery. These sleep problems might have a drastic burden on the recovered patients' life. This study aimed to investigate the sleep in the post-Coronavirus-19 period and if has an impact on the different items of patients' quality of life. This cross-sectional observational study investigated the sleep problems in 500 patients in the post recovery period using Insomnia Severity Index and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), their relation to this critical period and their impact on different domains of Quality of Life which was assessed by the SF36 Health Survey. RESULTS: Socio-demographic characteristics of 500 post-Coronavirus-19 patients were collected; the insomnia severity index and Pittsburgh sleep quality index evaluated the sleep pattern. The quality of life was investigated using Short Form 36 scale. The study revealed high scores of insomnia severity index (13.01 ± 4.9), Pittsburgh sleep quality index (15.37 ± 4.43), also high scores of different items of scale of quality of life in the studied group. CONCLUSION: Post-COVID-19 sleep disturbances were commonly reported in the recovery period, also these sleep deficits had an impact on the physical and mental aspects of quality of life, so these sleep problems must be managed properly especially in this critical pandemic era.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 75 citations exist upstream.

References

1989The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research 1992The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.1992The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)2020Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China 2001Validation of the Insomnia Severity Index as an outcome measure for insomnia research 2020Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 2020A nationwide survey of psychological distress among Chinese people in the COVID‐19 epidemic: implications and policy recommendations 2020Generalized anxiety disorder, depressive symptoms and sleep quality during COVID-19 outbreak in China: a web-based cross-sectional survey

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.