Pandemic nightmares: Effects on dream activity of the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy
| Autor: | Roberto Cattivelli, Vittorio Lenzo, Luigi De Gennaro, Serena Scarpelli, Elena Vegni, Emanuela Saita, Maria C. Quattropani, Lidia Borghi, Maria Francesca Freda, Christian Franceschini, Giuseppe Plazzi, Anastasia Mangiaruga, Alessandro Musetti, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Daniela Lemmo, Valentina Alfonsi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Scarpelli, S., Alfonsi, V., Mangiaruga, A., Musetti, A., Quattropani, M. C., Lenzo, V., Freda, M. F., Lemmo, D., Vegni, E., Borghi, L., Saita, E., Cattivelli, R., Castelnuovo, G., Plazzi, G., De Gennaro, L., Franceschini, C. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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adverse event Settore M-PSI/08 - PSICOLOGIA CLINICA COVID dreams nightmares continuity hypothesis health mental sleep activity sleep Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine adverse events Pandemic Regular Research Paper Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common education.field_of_study General Medicine Middle Aged Sleep in non-human animals humanities Nightmare Italy Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology psychological phenomena and processes Clinical psychology Adult Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Cognitive Neuroscience Population Regular Research Papers 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult medicine Humans Dream education Pandemics COVID-19 Mental health 030228 respiratory system Communicable Disease Control continuity hypothesi 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sleep Research |
| Popis: | Summary 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). Moreover, we found higher emotional features of dream activity in workers who have stopped working, in people who have relatives/friends infected by or who have died from COVID‐19 and in subjects who have changed their sleep habits. Our findings point to the fact that the predictors of high dream recall and nightmares are consistent with the continuity between sleep mentation and daily experiences. According to the arousal‐retrieval model, we found that poor sleep predicts a high nightmare frequency. We suggest monitoring dream changes during the epidemic, and also considering the implications for clinical treatment and prevention of mental and sleep disorders. |
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