Sleep and circadian problems during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the International COVID-19 Sleep Study (ICOSS)

doi:10.1111/jsr.13206

. 2021 Feb;30(1):e13206.

doi: 10.1111/jsr.13206. Epub 2020 Nov 12.

Sleep and circadian problems during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the International COVID-19 Sleep Study (ICOSS)

Markku Partinen^{1

2}, Bjørn Bjorvatn^{3

4}, Brigitte Holzinger^{5

6}, Frances Chung⁷, Thomas Penzel⁸, Colin A Espie⁹, Charles M Morin¹⁰; ICOSS-collaboration group

Affiliations

¹ Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Vitalmed Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
² Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
⁴ Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
⁵ ZK Schlafcoaching, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research, Vienna, Austria.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁸ Interdisciplinary Sleep Medicine Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁹ Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰ Centre d'étude des troubles du sommeil, École de psychologie, Institut universitaire en santé mentale, Centre de recherche CERVO, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.

PMID: 33179820
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13206

Sleep and circadian problems during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the International COVID-19 Sleep Study (ICOSS)

Markku Partinen et al. J Sleep Res. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;30(1):e13206.

doi: 10.1111/jsr.13206. Epub 2020 Nov 12.

Authors

Markku Partinen^{1

2}, Bjørn Bjorvatn^{3

4}, Brigitte Holzinger^{5

6}, Frances Chung⁷, Thomas Penzel⁸, Colin A Espie⁹, Charles M Morin¹⁰; ICOSS-collaboration group

Affiliations

¹ Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Vitalmed Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
² Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
⁴ Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
⁵ ZK Schlafcoaching, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Institute for Consciousness and Dream Research, Vienna, Austria.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁸ Interdisciplinary Sleep Medicine Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁹ Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁰ Centre d'étude des troubles du sommeil, École de psychologie, Institut universitaire en santé mentale, Centre de recherche CERVO, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.

PMID: 33179820
DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13206

Abstract

This protocol paper describes the development of an international collaboration to survey several thousand adults from different countries around the world about their sleep during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It is based on the development of a harmonised survey with 50 questions (106 different items) on sleep habits and sleep symptoms that permit comparability of information. The harmonised questionnaire may be used in anonymous cross-sectional surveys, and the instruments within the questionnaire may also be used in prospective studies and clinical studies. The aim was to develop a questionnaire to sample a variety of sleep-wake disorders and other symptoms likely to be caused by prolonged social confinement or by having had COVID-19. The questionnaire was designed to be: (a) simple and, (b) free to use, for research purposes, (c) multilingual, and (d) comprehensive. It can be completed in <30 min. By the end of June 2020, the survey questionnaire had been administered in Austria, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK and USA. Research questions to be addressed by the pooled data derived from the participating sites focus on describing the nature and rates of various sleep and circadian rhythms symptoms, as well as their psychological and medical correlates, that arise at various points during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; delayed sleep phase; dreams; fatigue; insomnia; sleepiness; social confinement.

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[1] Altena, E., Baglioni, C., Espie, C. A., Ellis, J., Gavriloff, D., Holzinger, B., Schlarb, A., Frase, L., Jernelöv, S., & Riemann, D. (2020). Dealing with sleep problems during home confinement due to the COVID-19 outbreak: Practical recommendations from a task force of the European CBT-I Academy. Journal of Sleep Research, 29, e13052. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13052

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