COVID Pandemic has Severely Disrupted Sleep, Increasing Stress, Medication Use by Iswarya on December 17, 2020 at 11:54 AM Journal of Sleep Research. The global pandemic's impact on daily routines extends to the bed, according to 'Profiles of sleep changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Demographic, behavioural and psychological factors'. The study was led by Principal Investigator Rébecca Robillard, an Assistant Professor and co-director of the Sleep Laboratory of the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and Head Scientist in the Sleep Research Unit at The Royal Institute of Mental Health Research and published in the Journal of Sleep Research. Dr. Robillard and her team, which was comprised of nearly two dozen scientists from across North America, conducted an online survey of 5,525 Canadian during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. She walked us through some of the study's most important findings.