Muzaffar Farha Ainin Sofia, Tan Seok Tyug
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Management and Science University University Drive, Off Persiaran Olahraga, Section 13 Shah Alam Selangor Malaysia.
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences Monash University Malaysia Jalan Lagoon Selatan Bandar Sunway Selangor Malaysia.
Health Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 29;7(9):e70042. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70042. eCollection 2024 Sep.
Literature suggests that individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 may experience post-COVID conditions, including sleep problems and alterations in smell or taste. Thus, this study aims to compare the sleep quality, diet quality, and weight change between COVID-19-recovered patients and healthy controls.
A matched case-control study involving young adults aged 18-30 years was conducted in the Klang Valley of Malaysia. The young adults were matched in a 1:1 ratio based on their sociodemographic characteristics, including gender, age, marital status, ethnicity, educational attainment, employment status, and monthly earned income. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was utilized to evaluate sleep quality, and the Diet Quality for Malaysia was used to determine the diet quality of all young adults. The young adults retrospectively recalled their prepandemic body weight in February 2020, while their current body weight in February 2023 was measured using a TANITA HD-314 digital weighing scale.
Emerging findings suggest that sleep quality and weight change were comparable between COVID-19-recovered patients and healthy controls. However, healthy controls were reported to have a more diversified diet than COVID-19-recovered patients. Nevertheless, no significant main effects or interaction effects of sleep and diet quality on weight change were observed in COVID-19-recovered patients or healthy controls. In this study, young adults also reported suffering from sleep deprivation and deficiency due to the pandemic.
Intervention programs that emphasize avoiding stimulants before bedtime for healthy controls, promoting the importance of having a diversified and balanced diet among the COVID-19-recovered patients, and achieving an ideal body weight for all young adults should be conducted after the COVID-19 pandemic.
文献表明，从新冠病毒感染中康复的个体可能会出现新冠后状况，包括睡眠问题以及嗅觉或味觉改变。因此，本研究旨在比较新冠康复患者与健康对照者之间的睡眠质量、饮食质量和体重变化。
在马来西亚巴生谷开展了一项匹配病例对照研究，纳入18至30岁的年轻成年人。这些年轻成年人根据其社会人口学特征进行1:1匹配，包括性别、年龄、婚姻状况、种族、教育程度、就业状况和月收入。采用匹兹堡睡眠质量指数评估睡眠质量，并使用马来西亚饮食质量指标来确定所有年轻成年人的饮食质量。这些年轻成年人回顾性回忆了他们在2020年2月疫情前的体重，同时使用百利达HD - 314数字体重秤测量了他们在2023年2月的当前体重。
新出现的研究结果表明，新冠康复患者与健康对照者之间的睡眠质量和体重变化相当。然而，据报告健康对照者的饮食比新冠康复患者更加多样化。尽管如此，在新冠康复患者或健康对照者中，未观察到睡眠和饮食质量对体重变化有显著的主效应或交互效应。在本研究中，年轻成年人还报告称因疫情而遭受睡眠剥夺和睡眠不足。
在新冠疫情之后，应实施干预项目，包括建议健康对照者睡前避免使用兴奋剂，向新冠康复患者宣传多样化和均衡饮食的重要性，以及促使所有年轻成年人达到理想体重。
