Children's Sleep and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The COVID-19 pandemic and protracted home confinement required adjustments to schedules and routines generating concern about children's sleep. This review describes general considerations regarding children's sleep, changes and disturbances in their sleep during the pandemic, and the association of sleep measures with health and psychological outcomes in general and in the context of the pandemic.

RECENT FINDINGS: A number of studies found an increase in the duration of children's sleep with later bedtimes and waketimes for some children. The research also documented sleep disturbances and associations between children's sleep and psychological outcomes. The extent to which increased sleep duration and changed sleep behaviors translated into improved sleep quality and/or a change in sleep disturbances remains unclear. This review suggests the importance of considering children's sleep in other mass trauma situations including, for example, natural and man-made disasters, as well as pandemics.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Current psychiatry reports - 25(2023), 12 vom: 11. Dez., Seite 847-856

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pfefferbaum, Betty [VerfasserIn]
Tucker, Phebe [VerfasserIn]
Ekambaram, Vijayabharathi [VerfasserIn]
Van Horn, Richard L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Children
Disaster
Journal Article
Mental health
Pandemic
Review
Sleep

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 16.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11920-023-01475-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364490942