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Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students

PURPOSE: To check for changes in sleep in three temporary times: before COVID-19 lockdown in university students, and also twenty days and forty days afterwards, as well as to see how it has influenced in their daily activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted with a sample...

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Autores principales: Martínez-Lezaun, Iratxe, Santamaría-Vázquez, Montserrat, Del Líbano, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262671
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S280892
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author Martínez-Lezaun, Iratxe
Santamaría-Vázquez, Montserrat
Del Líbano, Mario
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Santamaría-Vázquez, Montserrat
Del Líbano, Mario
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description PURPOSE: To check for changes in sleep in three temporary times: before COVID-19 lockdown in university students, and also twenty days and forty days afterwards, as well as to see how it has influenced in their daily activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted with a sample of 75 participants from different Spanish universities. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Adapted Interest List were administered to evaluate the main variables of the study. RESULTS: About 70.7% of the sample showed worse sleep quality at 20 days, almost twice as much as before confinement (37.3%), there were more problems falling asleep (F(2, 75) = −3.14, p = 0.002), and more difficulty getting back to sleep when waking up at night (F(2.75) = 2.08, p = 0.037) at 40 days of lockdown. In addition, as confinement time went on, students showed less activities. Factors such as working, in addition to studying, and relaxing activities (reading, listening to music) were associated with better sleep quality. CONCLUSION: Sleep quality worsened during lockdown in university students, as well as both 20 and 40 days later. Staying busy during the day (not only studying but also working) and spending free time on relaxing activities are related to better sleep quality.
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spelling pubmed-76999882020-11-30 Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students Martínez-Lezaun, Iratxe Santamaría-Vázquez, Montserrat Del Líbano, Mario Nat Sci Sleep Original Research PURPOSE: To check for changes in sleep in three temporary times: before COVID-19 lockdown in university students, and also twenty days and forty days afterwards, as well as to see how it has influenced in their daily activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted with a sample of 75 participants from different Spanish universities. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Adapted Interest List were administered to evaluate the main variables of the study. RESULTS: About 70.7% of the sample showed worse sleep quality at 20 days, almost twice as much as before confinement (37.3%), there were more problems falling asleep (F(2, 75) = −3.14, p = 0.002), and more difficulty getting back to sleep when waking up at night (F(2.75) = 2.08, p = 0.037) at 40 days of lockdown. In addition, as confinement time went on, students showed less activities. Factors such as working, in addition to studying, and relaxing activities (reading, listening to music) were associated with better sleep quality. CONCLUSION: Sleep quality worsened during lockdown in university students, as well as both 20 and 40 days later. Staying busy during the day (not only studying but also working) and spending free time on relaxing activities are related to better sleep quality. Dove 2020-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7699988/ /pubmed/33262671 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S280892 Text en © 2020 Martínez-Lezaun et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students
title Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students
title_full Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students
title_fullStr Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students
title_full_unstemmed Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students
title_short Influence of Confinement by COVID-19 on the Quality of Sleep and the Interests of University Students
title_sort influence of confinement by covid-19 on the quality of sleep and the interests of university students
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262671
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NSS.S280892
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