Sleep disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jahrami H, BaHammam AS, Bragazzi NL, Saif Z, Faris M, Vitiello MV Sleep disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic by population: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin SleepMed. 2021; 17(2): 299 -313.

Commentary

This study is a systematic review of the prevalence of sleep disorders in the general population, health care workers, and patients with COVID-19 and the impact of the pandemic.

AmericanPsychological Association PsycINFO from November 1, 2019 to July 5, 2020, Cochrane, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied HealthLiterature (CINAHL) , EBSCOhost, EMBASE, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, ProQuest Medical, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science used, and five preprint servers (medRxiv.org; preprints. org; psyarxiv.com; arXiv.org; biorxiv.org) also searched for articles that had been accepted after peer review but had not yet been published and indexed, and had no language restrictions.

In addition, a meta-analytic model of the variational effects model was used with DerSimonian andLaird's methodology.

The result was a systematic review and meta-analysis of 44 articles involving a total of 54,231 participants from 13 countries. The analysis showed that the global pooled prevalence of sleep disorders in all populations was 35.7% (95% confidence interval, 29.4-42.4%). patients with COVID-19 had a pooled rate of 74.8% (95% confidence interval, 28.7-95.6%). COVID-19 patients appeared to be the most affected group with a pooled rate of 74.8% (95% CI, 28.7-95.6%), and the incidence of sleep disturbances in the health care and general population was 36.0% (95% CI, 21.1-54.2%) and 32.3% (95% CI, 25.3-40.2%), respectively.

The conclusion of this study suggests that the prevalence of sleep disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic affected about 40% of the population, with COVID-19 patients being the most affected. Therefore, it was stated that measures should be taken for these people.