The stressful circumstances, combined with financial uncertainty and potential health risks, can have adverse impacts on individuals’ daily activities, as well as their psychological and physical health ( Altena et al., 2020). A wide range of social distancing measures have been implemented, including limits on large gatherings, closing of schools, parks, and many public facilities, as well as lockdowns and/or shelter-in-place approaches. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the daily lives of people around the globe. Our results demonstrate that stress and anxiety associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures may be linked to reduced sleep amount and quality. A much smaller association was observed between levels of stress and anxiety and increased sleep amount (ORs = 1.42 and 1.60 for stress and anxiety, respectively) and sleep quality (OR = 1.21 and 1.29 for stress and anxiety, respectively), which was no longer significant after controlling for between-family confounds. We found that stress and anxiety levels were associated with sleep reduction (ORs = 2.36 and 3.12 for stress and anxiety, respectively) and poorer sleep quality (ORs = 2.45 and 3.73 for stress and anxiety, respectively), even after taking into account between-family confounds. Approximately one-third of the participants had increased amount of sleep (29.8%), and 32.9% reported a decrease in sleep quality. About half of participants reported no change in sleep amount (50.1%) or sleep quality (55.6%). We investigated the extent to which individuals’ mental health status is associated with perceived changes in sleep amount and sleep quality among a sample of adult twin pairs ( N = 909 pairs 77% MZ, 23% DZ), less than a month after the outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. These measures may have unintended consequences on individuals’ well-being, such as increased stress, anxiety, and sleep disruptions. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of social distancing measures to mitigate the virus outbreak have been implemented. 2Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.1Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane, Spokane, WA, United States.

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