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Sleep quality and insomnia during the COVID-19 lockdown among the Saudi public

A cross-sectional study

Adel S. Alharbi, Sultan M. Alshahrani, Muslim M. Alsaadi, Hamdan H. AL-Jahdali, Siraj O. Wali and Ahmed S. BaHammam
Saudi Medical Journal April 2021, 42 (4) 384-390; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200735
Adel S. Alharbi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Sultan M. Alshahrani
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Muslim M. Alsaadi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hamdan H. AL-Jahdali
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Siraj O. Wali
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ahmed S. BaHammam
From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 42 no. 4 384-390
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.4.20200735
PubMed 
33795493

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 17, 2020
  • Accepted March 11, 2021
  • Published online March 31, 2021.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Adel S. Alharbi, MBBS, MD⇑,
  2. Sultan M. Alshahrani, MBBS, MD,
  3. Muslim M. Alsaadi, MBBS, MD,
  4. Hamdan H. AL-Jahdali, MBBS, MD,
  5. Siraj O. Wali, MBBS, MD and
  6. Ahmed S. BaHammam, MBBS, MD
  1. From the Department of Pediatrics (Alharbi), Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense; from the Department of Neurosciences (Alshahrani), King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; from the Department of Pediatrics (Alsaadi), from the National Plan for Science and Technology (BaHammam), College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital; from the University Sleep Disorders Center (BaHammam), Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Medicine (AL-Jahdali), Sleep Disorder Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh; and from the Sleep Medicine and Research Center (Wali), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Adel S. Alharbi, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, Prince Sultan Military City, Ministry of Defense, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr.adelalharbi{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7974-4026
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