• Monaldi Arch Chest Dis · Jun 2020

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    Sleepless in COVID-19: how not to lose sleep in lockdowns.

    • Siddharth Raj Yadav, Rohit Kumar, Amit Kumar, Pranav Ish, Nitesh Gupta, and Shibdas Chakrabarti.
    • Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. drsid28@gmail.com.
    • Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2020 Jun 12; 90 (2).

    AbstractThe corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and spread all over the world leading to declaration of a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) on 11th March 2020. Most countries around the world have been on lockdown in an effort to halt the spread of virus. People around the world have been pushed into uncharted waters of uncertainty, fear, anxiety, stress and depression due to economic crash down, job losses and fear for their own health and that of their loved ones. There is a known association between anxiety/stress and sleep disturbances and vice versa. The most vulnerable population in this isolation like condition, in this lockdown, are the chief earning member of the family, women, young ones, and people with psychiatric illness.

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