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IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON NONRESTORATIVE SLEEP PATTERN IN COLLEGE STUDENTS AT A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN RECIFE

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INTRODUCTION: Because of the peak incidence of the new coronavirus, the university routine was completely modified. Absence of group conviviality can result in psychosocial implications, impairing restful sleep and reflecting on poor academic development. Therefore, if sleep is not restorative, the difficulty maintenance of deep sleep and muscle relaxation is associated with a set of adverse symptoms, such as physical, mental and emotional disturbances, among these, mood swings, memory consolidation and learning. OBJECTIVES: To report the incidence of the impact of non-restorative sleep. To investigate comorbidities effects on sleep and learning consequences. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, observational, descriptive, retrospective, epidemiological quantitative. It was carried out by interviewing 204 students from a private university in Recife, through a semi-structured questionnaire placed on the Google Forms platform. RESULTS: The sample was 204 college students distributed across health (74%), humanities (22.5%) and exact (3.5%) areas. Significant changes in sleep quality after onset of COVID-19 pandemic was felt by 73.5%. Comparing results between before and during COVID-19 period and the pandemic period, 72.1% of the students interviewed began to experience anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, 64.9% experienced intensification of symptoms of anxiety. Begining depressive symptoms after the pandemic in 45.6%, while 35.2% reported intensification of depressive symptoms. The anxiety and depressive symptons were related as perception of the individual. Regarding waking up, 75% reported feeling fatigued and unwell. Moreover, regarding the sleep pattern interfering in daily functioning, 73% affirmed fatigue during the day; 60.3% had mood changes; 49.5% memory changes; 74.5% felt interference in concentration, and 53.4% in the learning capacity. The sleep quality affects 72.1% in the educational part; 40.2% in the social part; 64.2% in the emotional part; 62.7% in the physical part. CONCLUSION: Our study showed that there was an impairment in the quality of sleep in college students, which may have impacted on the emergence or worsening of anxiety symptoms, and consequently impacted their learning and social context. Understanding these consequences of sleep disturbances and quality of life in the pandemic period, we can emphasize the importance of intall a specialized psychopedagogical care program by the university institution.

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Sleep Wake Disorders ; Covid 19; Students