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Adapting to a major crisis: Sleep and mental health during two lockdowns
Author(s) -
KoppeheleGossel Judith,
Weinmann LenaMarie,
Klimke Ansgar,
Windmann Sabine,
Voss Ursula
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of sleep research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2869
pISSN - 0962-1105
DOI - 10.1111/jsr.13565
Subject(s) - anxiety , mental health , depression (economics) , pandemic , psychiatry , covid-19 , sleep (system call) , psychology , sleep quality , medicine , clinical psychology , insomnia , disease , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , macroeconomics , operating system
Summary The present study aimed at investigating the impact of the pandemic on sleep and mental health in healthy individuals ( n = 78) as well as in psychiatric outpatients ( n = 30) during the first and the second lockdown in Germany, in March and November 2020, respectively. Sleep quality and anxiety were worse in patients compared with controls during both lockdowns. Further, patients but not controls exhibited higher levels of depression and overall psychiatric symptomatology during the second lockdown. No differences were found in the perceived threat evoked by the pandemic. The data suggest that healthy individuals adapt flexibly to the difficult situation over the time course of the pandemic, whereas psychiatric patients seem to get worse, indicating difficulties in adapting to stressful circumstances.