THE PANDEMIC: POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON SLEEP
The stress and anxiety experienced since the start of the pandemic has and will continue to have many repercussions on mental health. Sleep patterns are disturbed for some by psychological stress that causes insomnia. For others, the quarantine and isolation made it possible to reconnect with their own biological clock.
According to some researchers, the Covid-19 epidemic is the biggest global health crisis since World War II
The Office of Federal Statistics published figures on the Swiss state
a neurologist and medical co-director of the Florimont sleep centre. He is a specialist in sleep disorders and a lecturer and clinical researcher at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of Lausanne; he is also a registered physician at the CHUV sleep investigation and research centre.
of health and physical sleep disorders in 2017. It showed that 22.9% of the population suffered from "moderate" sleep disorders while 6.3% were considered "pathological" sleep disorders. What are the consequences of the pandemic's impact on sleep when psychological stresses can be assumed to be numerous for the entire population? What is happe- ning in sleep clinics? We met with doctor José Haba-Rubio,
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