Stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic have had a major impact on people's usual routines, including their sleeping patterns. Recent studies have demonstrated that relaxed work schedules and more time spent at home have meant that the timing of sleep has become more regular, with less "social jetlag" (the discrepancy in sleep timing between working and non-working days) (1). Nonetheless, there are also been reports in a decline in sleep quality based on self-reported data (2). The factors which influence individual's susceptibility to altered sleep patterns during the pandemic have not been fully investigated. Within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), parents and young people (YP) were asked to report whether their amount of sleep had decreased, stayed the same, or increased during lockdown. They were also asked to record any difficulty sleeping.

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(1) Christine Blume, Marlene H. Schmidt, Christian Cajochen. Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on human sleep and rest-activity rhythms. Current Biology, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.021
(2) Kenneth P. Wright, Sabrina K. Linton, Dana Withrow, Leandro Casiraghi, Shannon M. Lanza, Horacio de la Iglesia, Celine Vetter, Christopher M. Depner. Sleep in University Students Prior to and During COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders. Current Biology, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.022