Dreadful Impact of Covid 19 and Disturbed Sleep Pattern of General Population and Health Care Workers Globally – A Review

Authors: Singh Varnika Vd* and Rai Shalini Vd

DOI: 10.23880/jonam-16000372

Volume 7, Issue 1

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the mental health of people causing psychological distress with problems such as emotional disturbance, stress, mood alterations, anger, depression, irritability, confusion, emotional exhaustion, emotional isolation, insecurity, social stigma, post-traumatic stress symptoms, and especially insomnia reported in almost all sectors and strata of the society globally. Sleep is a recuperative and regulatory physiological need, affecting the systems biology and human immune system. COVID 19 is documented to disrupt sleep in various ways which may affect the immunity and the response of the individuals. The articles were searched on various search engines such as Pub med, Google scholar, science direct and the mesh terms such as Covid19, sleep, their different combinations and permutations was also explored and found that sleep which is known as one among the Trayoupstambha in Ayurveda severely affected during covid pandemic.

Keywords: Health care workers; Pandemic; Psychopathologies; COVID-19

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