Pandemic nightmares: Effects on dream activity of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy.
Pandemic nightmares: Effects on dream activity of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy.
J Sleep Res. 2021 Feb 06;:e13300
Authors: Scarpelli S, Alfonsi V, Mangiaruga A, Musetti A, Quattropani MC, Lenzo V, Freda MF, Lemmo D, Vegni E, Borghi L, Saita E, Cattivelli R, Castelnuovo G, Plazzi G, De Gennaro L, Franceschini C
Abstract
COVID-19 has critically impacted the world. Recent works have found substantial changes in sleep and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dreams could give us crucial information about people's well-being, so here we have directly investigated the consequences of lockdown on the oneiric activity in a large Italian sample: 5,988 adults completed a web-survey during lockdown. We investigated sociodemographic and COVID-19-related information, sleep quality (by the Medical Outcomes Study-Sleep Scale), mental health (by the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales), dream and nightmare frequency, and related emotional aspects (by the Mannheim Dream Questionnaire). Comparisons between our sample and a population-based sample revealed that Italians are having more frequent nightmares and dreams during the pandemic. A multiple logistic regression model showed the predictors of high dream recall (young age, female gender, not having children, sleep duration) and high nightmare frequency (young age, female gender, modification of napping, sleep duration, intrasleep wakefulness, sleep problem index, anxiety, depression). Mo...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Scarpelli S, Alfonsi V, Mangiaruga A, Musetti A, Quattropani MC, Lenzo V, Freda MF, Lemmo D, Vegni E, Borghi L, Saita E, Cattivelli R, Castelnuovo G, Plazzi G, De Gennaro L, Franceschini C Tags: J Sleep Res Source Type: research
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