COVID-19 pandemic-imposed lockdown: impacts on the rural agrarian and the urban corporate workforce of India

IF 1 4区生物学 Q3 BIOLOGY

Biological Rhythm Research Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1080/09291016.2022.2031422

Piya Majumdar, Sasangbaha Mandi, Ankita Biswas, P. Nayak, S. Sahu

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ABSTRACT The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is inescapable which encompasses both physical and mental health myriads. To combat the pandemic, lockdown has been imposed worldwide, the impact of which, and, the subsequent new normal phase has raised global concern. Two workforces of the Indian population, rural agrarian and urban corporate, were compared for impact on sleep quality, depressive symptomatology, screen exposure, somatic pain and other health co-morbidities in three-time frames – prior, during and post lockdown periods. An online survey was conducted for those engaged in the urban corporate sector (N=146) and an interview for the rural agrarian workforce (N=100). Both the workforces had adumbrated significant (p<0.05) variations in sleep behavior with changes noted in sleep latency and feeling of sleepiness, being higher during the lockdown phase. The screen time had also been identified to be positively related to the presence of depressive symptomatology and negatively with sleep duration among both the workforces. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 induced lockdown affects the urban corporate more with erratic sleep behavior, enhanced psychometric distress, somatic discomfort and behavioral modifications that might be due to social isolation, reliance over digital use, and disoriented work schedule .

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2019冠状病毒病大流行实施的封锁:对印度农村农业和城市企业劳动力的影响

摘要新冠肺炎大流行的影响是不可避免的，包括身体和心理健康。为了抗击疫情，世界各地都实施了封锁，其影响以及随后的新常态阶段引起了全球的关注。比较了印度人口中的两种劳动力，农村农业劳动力和城市企业劳动力，在封锁前、封锁期间和封锁后三个时间段内对睡眠质量、抑郁症状、屏幕暴露、身体疼痛和其他健康并发症的影响。一项针对城市企业部门从业人员的在线调查（N=146）和一项针对农村农业劳动力的访谈（N=100）。这两名员工的睡眠行为都有显著变化（p<0.05），睡眠潜伏期和嗜睡感的变化在封锁阶段更高。筛查时间也被发现与抑郁症状的存在呈正相关，与两名员工的睡眠时间呈负相关。我们的研究结果表明，新冠肺炎引发的封锁对城市企业的影响更大，睡眠行为不稳定、心理测量痛苦加剧、身体不适和行为改变可能是由于社交孤立、对数字使用的依赖和工作安排混乱。

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Biological Rhythm Research 生物-生理学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

9.10%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The principal aim of Biological Rhythm Research is to cover any aspect of research into the broad topic of biological rhythms. The area covered can range from studies at the genetic or molecular level to those of behavioural or clinical topics. It can also include ultradian, circadian, infradian or annual rhythms. In this way, the Editorial Board tries to stimulate interdisciplinary rhythm research. Such an aim reflects not only the similarity of the methods used in different fields of chronobiology, but also the fact that many influences that exert controlling or masking effects are common. Amongst the controlling factors, attention is paid to the effects of climate change on living organisms. So, papers dealing with biometeorological aspects can also be submitted. The Journal publishes original scientific research papers, review papers, short notes on research in progress, book reviews and summaries of activities, symposia and congresses of national and international organizations dealing with rhythmic phenomena.