{"id":12657,"date":"2025-07-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=12657"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:44:54","slug":"3-in-4-people-with-mild-covid-develop-insomnia-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=12657","title":{"rendered":"3 in 4 people with mild COVID develop insomnia, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>John Anderer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HANOI, Vietnam \u2014 <\/strong>Recovering from a bout of COVID-19 can be a different experience for every patient. Some people are able to bounce back relatively quickly, while others continue to wrestle with lingering symptoms months and even years after the initial infection subsides. Now, a troubling survey of people diagnosed with COVID-19 but never hospitalized reports a staggering 76 percent went on to develop insomnia. Moreover, people with anxiety or depression appear more likely to develop post-COVID sleep issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although studies have established that insomnia is quite common among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, Dr. Huong T. X. Hoang of Phenikaa University and a team of scientists set out to investigate if mild infections may also impact sleep quality<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a sleep researcher, I received many questions and complaints from relatives, friends, and colleagues about their sleep disturbances after recovering from COVID-19,\u201d says Dr. Hoang, lead author of the study, in a media release<\/a>. \u201cI found that the majority of papers focused on hospitalized patients. The environment of their treatment and quarantine would differ greatly from those with milder symptoms<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Vietnam\u2019s official network of COVID-19 survivors, study authors recruited 1,056 adults (18+) diagnosed with COVID-19 but not hospitalized over the prior six months. All participants also reported no history of either insomnia or psychiatric conditions. A survey was sent out to everyone between June and September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That survey asked about sociodemographic characteristics, including age, sex, and chronic health conditions, as well as the duration and severity of each patient\u2019s COVID infection. The poll also asked about symptoms related to anxiety, stress, and depression<\/a>. In order to investigate insomnia specifically, researchers asked participants to compare how well they slept, how long they slept, and how easy it was to fall asleep over the prior two weeks in comparison to before contracting COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That approach led to the revelation that 76.1 percent<\/strong> of participants reported experiencing insomnia<\/a>. A significant portion of those people (22.8%) said their insomnia was severe. Half, meanwhile, said they now wake up more often during the night, and a third added they find it harder to fall asleep now, sleep worse in general, and sleep for shorter periods<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, the severity of a person\u2019s initial COVID-19 infection does not appear to correlate with the severity of insomnia experienced. While asymptomatic COVID-19 patients scored lower on the insomnia index, researchers say the difference was not statistically significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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