TY - JOUR AU - Yadav, Siddharth Raj AU - Kumar, Rohit AU - Kumar, Amit AU - Ish, Pranav AU - Gupta, Nitesh AU - Chakrabarti, Shibdas PY - 2020/06/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Sleepless in COVID-19: how not to lose sleep in lockdowns JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 2 SE - COVID-19 - Collection of articles on the Coronavirus outbreak DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1364 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1364 SP - AB - <p>The 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 11<sup>th</sup> 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.<br>There is a known association between anxiety/stress and sleep disturbances and vice versa. The most vulnerable population in&nbsp;this isolation like condition, in this lockdown, are the chief earning member of the family, women, young ones, and people with&nbsp;psychiatric illness.</p> ER -