EFECTOS DEL AISLAMIENTO SOCIAL EN EL SUEÑO DURANTE LA PANDEMIA COVID-19

Jairo Ramírez-Ortiz; Jeisson Fontecha-Hernández; Franklin Escobar-Córdoba

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.801

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Jairo Ramírez-Ortiz Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Psiquiatría, sede Bogotá D.C., Colombia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0232-4071
Jeisson Fontecha-Hernández NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. NY, USA.
Franklin Escobar-Córdoba UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0561-4883

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.801

Keywords:

Pandemics, Social Isolation, Coronavirus Infections, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Sleep, Dyssomnias, Sleep Wake Disorders, Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm, Sleep Disorders Intrinsic, Sleep Hygiene, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic, 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency with significant impacts on the mental health of the general population. Both studies in previous epidemics and those that have been developed to date show a wide range of psychosocial consequences and multiple psychological symptoms, among which changes in the sleep pattern stand out, consistently in the publications it has been recorded that close of a third of the people who experience social isolation present insomnia, this is an important predictor for the development of mental disturbances with great compromises in functionality such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders. The purpose of this reflection article is to describe the effects on sleep that can result from social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.