Imperial College London COVID-19 Response Team and others proposed that having people stay home would help limit the spread of the virus.
Governments instituted lockdowns to try to prevent a catastrophic number of deaths and ensure that hospitals did not become overwhelmed.
Nonessential businesses closed, people stayed home, and schools utilized online learning methods. However, the lockdowns led to new problems regarding other areas of health and well-being.
One such area was sleep hygiene. According to a recent longitudinal study, which now appears in the journal Sleep, sleep quality declined during the COVID-19 lockdowns.