dc.contributor.author | Scarpelli, Serena | |
dc.contributor.author | Nadorff, Michael R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bjorvatn, Bjørn | |
dc.contributor.author | Chung, Frances | |
dc.contributor.author | Dauvilliers, Yves | |
dc.contributor.author | Espie, Colin A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Inoue, Yuichi | |
dc.contributor.author | Matsui, Kentaro | |
dc.contributor.author | Merikanto, Ilona | |
dc.contributor.author | Morin, Charles M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Penzel, Thomas | |
dc.contributor.author | Sieminski, Mariusz | |
dc.contributor.author | Fang, Han | |
dc.contributor.author | Macêdo, Tainá | |
dc.contributor.author | Mota-Rolim, Sérgio A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Leger, Damien | |
dc.contributor.author | Plazzi, Giuseppe | |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, Ngan Yin | |
dc.contributor.author | Partinen, Markku | |
dc.contributor.author | Bolstad, Courtney J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Holzinger, Brigitte | |
dc.contributor.author | De Gennaro, Luigi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-28T11:58:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-28T11:58:30Z | |
dc.date.created | 2022-05-13T09:11:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1179-1608 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3039636 | |
dc.description.abstract | Introduction: A growing number of studies have demonstrated that the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected sleep and dream activity in healthy people. To date, no investigation has examined dream activity specifically in COVID-19 patients.
Methods: As part of the International COVID-19 Sleep Study (ICOSS), we compared 544 COVID-19 participants with 544 matched-controls. A within-subjects comparison between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods computed separately for controls and COVID-19 participants were performed on dream recall and nightmare frequency (DRF; NF). Also, non-parametric comparisons between controls and COVID-19 participants were carried out. Further, we compared psychological measures between the groups collected during pandemic. Ordinal logistic regression to detect the best predictors of NF was performed.
Results: We found that people reported greater dream activity during the pandemic. Comparisons between controls and COVID-19 participants revealed a) no difference between groups concerning DRF in the pre-pandemic period and during the pandemic; b) no difference between groups concerning nightmare frequency in the pre-pandemic period; and c) COVID-19 participants reported significantly higher NF than controls during pandemic (p = 0.003). Additionally, we showed that a) anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress-disorder (PTSD) symptom scores were higher in COVID-19 participants than controls; and b) quality of life and health as well as wellbeing (WHO-5) scores were significantly higher in controls than COVID-19 participants. Finally, ordinal logistic regression indicates that DRF (p < 0.001), PTSD (p < 0.001), anxiety (p = 0.018), insomnia (p = 0.039), COVID-19 severity (p = 0.014), sleep duration (p = 0.003) and age (p = 0.001) predicted NF.
Discussion: Our work shows strong associations between increased nightmares in those reporting having had COVID-19. This suggests that the more that people were affected by COVID-19, the greater the impact upon dream activity and quality of life. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | DovePress | en_US |
dc.rights | Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Nightmares in People with COVID-19: Did Coronavirus Infect Our Dreams? | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2022 The Author(s) | en_US |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2147/NSS.S344299 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2024186 | |
dc.source.journal | Nature and Science of Sleep | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 93-108 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature and Science of Sleep. 2022, 14, 93-108. | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 14 | en_US |