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Hickman R, D’Oliveira TC, Davies A, Shergill S. Monitoring Daily Sleep, Mood, and Affect Using Digital Technologies and Wearables: A Systematic Review. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:4701. [PMID: 39066098 PMCID: PMC11280943 DOI: 10.3390/s24144701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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Background: Sleep and affective states are closely intertwined. Nevertheless, previous methods to evaluate sleep-affect associations have been limited by poor ecological validity, with a few studies examining temporal or dynamic interactions in naturalistic settings. Objectives: First, to update and integrate evidence from studies investigating the reciprocal relationship between daily sleep and affective phenomena (mood, affect, and emotions) through ambulatory and prospective monitoring. Second, to evaluate differential patterns based on age, affective disorder diagnosis (bipolar, depression, and anxiety), and shift work patterns on day-to-day sleep-emotion dyads. Third, to summarise the use of wearables, actigraphy, and digital tools in assessing longitudinal sleep-affect associations. Method: A comprehensive PRISMA-compliant systematic review was conducted through the EMBASE, Ovid MEDLINE(R), PsycINFO, and Scopus databases. Results: Of the 3024 records screened, 121 studies were included. Bidirectionality of sleep-affect associations was found (in general) across affective disorders (bipolar, depression, and anxiety), shift workers, and healthy participants representing a range of age groups. However, findings were influenced by the sleep indices and affective dimensions operationalised, sampling resolution, time of day effects, and diagnostic status. Conclusions: Sleep disturbances, especially poorer sleep quality and truncated sleep duration, were consistently found to influence positive and negative affective experiences. Sleep was more often a stronger predictor of subsequent daytime affect than vice versa. The strength and magnitude of sleep-affect associations were more robust for subjective (self-reported) sleep parameters compared to objective (actigraphic) sleep parameters.
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- Robert Hickman
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, 16 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK;
- National Institute for Health Research, Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, London SE5 8AF, UK
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, 16 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK;
- School of Psychology and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 1QU, UK
- Kent and Medway Medical School, Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK;
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- Kent and Medway Medical School, Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK;
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, 16 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK;
- Kent and Medway Medical School, Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK;
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Bondopandhyay U, McGrath J, Coogan AN. Associations between sleep problems in children with ADHD and parental insomnia and ADHD symptoms. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0298377. [PMID: 38771841 PMCID: PMC11108211 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/23/2024] Open
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Sleep problems are common in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children's sleep problem may influence, and be influenced by, parents' sleep problems as well as parents' ADHD symptoms. In the current study we examined the associations of parent-rated sleep quality and sleep timing of pre-adolescent children with parental insomnia symptoms, parental ADHD symptoms and dysfunctional attitudes and beliefs about sleep in a convenience sample recruited by advertisement (N = 120). Childhood sleep problems were common in the sample, with 82% of children exceeding the threshold for the presence of a paediatric sleep disorder. Children's sleep quality showed minimal association with their sleep timing and chronotype. Parental insomnia symptoms, ADHD symptoms and dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep all associated with their children's sleep quality, and with the sleep subdomains of sleep anxiety and parasomnias. In multiple regression analysis only parental insomnia score was a significant predictor of children's sleep quality. Children's bedtimes, wake times, sleep duration, chronotype or social jetlag did not associate with parents' ADHD or insomnia symptoms. Sleep quality was significantly poorer in children whose parents scored as both consistent for adult ADHD and probable for insomnia disorder compared to parents who scored as either ADHD consistent or insomnia probable, or those who parents scored as neither. We discuss the putative nature of the relationships between sleep quality of children with ADHD and parental ADHD and insomnia symptoms, and suggest that clinicians consider parental sleep when attending to children with ADHD.
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- Upasana Bondopandhyay
- Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
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- Dublin and Department of Psychiatry, Linn Dara Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
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Xavier WDS, Abreu MP, Nunes MDR, Silva-Rodrigues FM, da Silva LF, de Araújo BBM, De Bortoli PS, Neris RR, Nascimento LC. The Sleep Patterns of Children and Adolescents with Chronic Conditions and Their Families: An Integrative Literature Review. CHILDREN (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 11:207. [PMID: 38397320 PMCID: PMC10887388 DOI: 10.3390/children11020207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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Sleep is of vital necessity for health, and it has a restorative and protective function for children and adolescents with chronic conditions and their families. The purpose of this study was to identify the scientific production on sleep patterns in children and adolescents with chronic conditions and their families. This integrative review was conducted between March and June 2022 using the databases of MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL and PsycINFO. The articles included were original papers published between January 2007 and mid-2022. Excluded were review studies that did not evaluate sleep and whose participants did not have chronic conditions or were not children, adolescents and/or their families. The searches returned 814 abstracts. After exclusions, 47 studies were selected to be read in full; of these, 29 were selected and were grouped empirically into four categories: major alterations in the sleep patterns of children and adolescents with chronic conditions; the relationship between sleep disorders and symptoms in children and adolescents with chronic conditions; the impaired sleep patterns of families of children and adolescents with chronic conditions; and sleep alterations and their relationship with other problems in families of children and adolescents with chronic conditions. All studies showed sleep pattern impairment in children and adolescents with chronic conditions as well as their families.
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- Welker da Silva Xavier
- Department of Maternal-Infant Nursing, Nursing Faculty, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, RJ, Brazil; (W.d.S.X.); (M.P.A.); (B.B.M.d.A.)
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- Department of Maternal-Infant Nursing, Nursing Faculty, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, RJ, Brazil; (W.d.S.X.); (M.P.A.); (B.B.M.d.A.)
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- Department of Maternal-Infant Nursing, Nursing Faculty, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, RJ, Brazil; (W.d.S.X.); (M.P.A.); (B.B.M.d.A.)
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- Maternal-Infant and Psychiatric Nursing Department, School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo 05403-000, SP, Brazil;
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- Maternal-Infant and Psychiatric Nursing Department, Aurora de Afonso Costa School of Nursing, Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi 22020-091, RJ, Brazil;
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- Department of Maternal-Infant Nursing, Nursing Faculty, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro 20551-030, RJ, Brazil; (W.d.S.X.); (M.P.A.); (B.B.M.d.A.)
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- Maternal-Infant and Public Health Nursing, Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-902, SP, Brazil; (P.S.D.B.); (R.R.N.); (L.C.N.)
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- Maternal-Infant and Public Health Nursing, Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-902, SP, Brazil; (P.S.D.B.); (R.R.N.); (L.C.N.)
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- Maternal-Infant and Public Health Nursing, Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto 14040-902, SP, Brazil; (P.S.D.B.); (R.R.N.); (L.C.N.)
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Johansson F, Côté P, Onell C, Källberg H, Sundberg T, Edlund K, Skillgate E. Strengths of associations between depressive symptoms and loneliness, perfectionistic concerns, risky alcohol use and physical activity across levels of sleep quality in Swedish university students: A cross-sectional study. J Sleep Res 2023; 32:e13745. [PMID: 36217878 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Previous research shows that sleep quality may interact with some other predictors of depression, such that poor sleep could strengthen the association between these factors and depression. We aimed to determine the presence of statistical interactions between sleep quality and loneliness, risky alcohol use, perfectionistic concerns and/or physical inactivity in relation to depressive symptoms. Further, we aimed to describe the functional form of the statistical interactions and associations. We used a cross-sectional design and included 4262 Swedish university students. All measures were self-reported, sleep quality was measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and depressive symptoms with the short-form Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. Regression models of increasing complexity (linear and non-linear, with and without interactions) were compared to determine the presence of associations and statistical interactions, and to explore the best functional form for these associations and interactions. Out-of-sample R2 from repeated cross-validation was used to select the final models. We found that sleep quality was associated with depressive symptoms in all final models. Sleep quality showed a linear interaction with perfectionistic concerns in relation to depressive symptoms, such that perfectionistic concerns were more strongly associated with depressive symptoms when sleep quality was poor. Loneliness, risky alcohol use and physical inactivity were non-linearly associated with depressive symptoms but did not interact with sleep quality. We concluded that out of the four examined variables, only perfectionistic concerns interacted with sleep quality in relation to depressive symptoms. This interaction was weak and explained little of the overall variance in depressive symptoms.
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- Fred Johansson
- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Nic Ghiolla Phadraig A, Smyth S. Sleep mediates the relationship between having an autistic child and poor family functioning. Sleep Med 2023; 101:190-196. [PMID: 36402004 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 10/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Sleep is an important biological necessity, a lack of which can have many cognitive, psychological, social, and physical impacts. Children with autism are known to present with sleep difficulties more frequently than their typically developing peers but despite this, there is relatively little research looking at the impact of sleep on the family. To investigate the effect of sleep on families of autistic and typically developing (TD) children, we conducted a study of sleep disturbances among children, sleep quality of their parents in association with their family function. In our study, 239 parents of autistic children and 227 parents of TD children participated. These parents completed a survey about their child's sleep disturbances, their own sleep quality, and their family function, along with a series of demographic questions. Analyses indicated that autistic children experience more sleep difficulties than TD peers, that children's sleep disturbances are associated with parental sleep quality and that parents of autistic children report decreased sleep quality compared to parents of TD children. Parental sleep quality, and child sleep quality were both found to partially mediate the relationship between autism diagnosis and family function.
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- School of Psychology, Dublin City University, Ireland.
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Lee MH, Min A, Park C, Kim I. How Do Sleep Disturbances Relate to Daytime Functions, Care-related Quality of Life, and Parenting Interactions in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder? J Autism Dev Disord 2022:10.1007/s10803-022-05532-z. [PMID: 35441918 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-022-05532-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Sleep disturbance is prevalent in caregivers and associated with negative physical, mental, and functional outcomes. This study examined the effects of sleep disturbance on daytime functions (sleepiness, fatigue, mood, cognitive alertness), care-related quality of life, and daily parenting interactions in 20 mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder for 10 consecutive days using ecological momentary assessment design. Participants responded about daytime functions four times and care-related quality of life and daily parenting interactions once using an online survey. Sleep disturbance was significantly related to all daytime functions and frustration with childcare. Therefore, development of sleep hygiene interventions is warranted to effectively reduce the impact of sleep disturbance and enable these mothers to better tackle daily physical and mental challenges.
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- Meen Hye Lee
- Department of Nursing, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
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- Department of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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- School of Nursing, Duquesne University, Fisher Hall 510, 600 Forbes Avenue, 15282, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
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Hruska B, Anderson L, Barduhn MS. Multilevel analysis of sleep quality and anger in emergency medical service workers. Sleep Health 2022; 8:303-310. [PMID: 35450834 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2022.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Poor sleep quality characterizes the emergency medical service (EMS) profession. Anger is particularly affected by sleep disturbance and may be related to sleep quality at both between- and within-person levels, yet this has never been examined. The current study performed a multilevel analysis of the relationship between sleep quality and anger among EMS workers. DESIGN Ecological momentary assessment PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-nine EMS workers employed at an emergency medical service provider in Central New York. MEASUREMENTS Participants completed 8 daily assessments that inquired about sleep quality and anger. RESULTS EMS workers who typically experienced poorer sleep quality reported greater anger levels; for instance, workers who routinely experienced poor sleep quality reported anger levels that were 18%-35% higher compared to workers receiving fair sleep quality. Regardless of their typical sleep quality, days when workers experienced poorer sleep than usual was characterized by higher levels of anger: on a day when a worker experienced poorer sleep quality than usual for them, their anger levels were 5% higher on that day regardless of their typical sleep quality. CONCLUSIONS EMS workers regularly experiencing poor sleep quality experience more anger. However, even workers who typically have better sleep quality experience anger elevations following poor sleep. These findings suggest that interventions targeting both between- and within-person factors impacting sleep may be important for addressing sleep quality's influence on anger in the EMS profession.
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- Bryce Hruska
- Department of Public Health, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.
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- Department of Public Health, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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da Estrela C, McGrath J, Booij L, Gouin JP. Heart Rate Variability, Sleep Quality, and Depression in the Context of Chronic Stress. Ann Behav Med 2021; 55:155-164. [PMID: 32525208 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaaa039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Disrupted sleep quality is one of the proposed mechanisms through which chronic stress may lead to depression. However, there exist significant individual differences in sleep reactivity, which is the extent to which one experiences sleep disturbances in response to stress. PURPOSE The aim of the current study was to investigate whether low high-frequency heart rate variability (HRV), as a psychophysiological marker of poor emotional and physiological arousal regulation, predicts stress-related sleep disturbances associated with greater risk of depression symptoms. METHODS Using a chronic caregiving stress model, 125 mothers of adolescents with developmental disorders and 97 mothers of typically developing adolescents had their resting HRV and HRV reactivity recorded and completed a measure of depressive symptoms, as well as a 7 day sleep diary to assess their sleep quality. A moderated mediation model tested whether sleep quality mediated the association between chronic stress exposure and depressive symptoms and whether HRV moderated this mediation. RESULTS After controlling for participant age, body mass index, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and employment status, poor sleep quality mediated the association between chronic stress and depressive symptoms. Resting HRV moderated this indirect effect such that individuals with lower HRV were more likely to report poorer sleep quality in the context of chronic stressor exposure, which, in turn, was related to greater depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Lower HRV, a potential biomarker of increased sleep reactivity to stress, is associated with greater vulnerability to stress-related sleep disturbances, which, in turn, increases the risk for elevated depressive symptoms in response to chronic stress.
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- Chelsea da Estrela
- Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,Center for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,Center for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,PERFORM Center, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,Center for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,PERFORM Center, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,Center for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.,PERFORM Center, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
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Nordberg H, Kroll JL, Rosenfield D, Chmielewski M, Ritz T. Chronic stress experience, sleep, and physical activity: Relations with change in negative affect and acute stress response to a naturalistic stressor. Br J Health Psychol 2021; 27:449-467. [PMID: 34423530 DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Prior research indicates that chronic stress increases allostatic load and alters individuals' affective response to stress. Recent studies have linked health-related behaviours including poor sleep and physical inactivity with elevated negative affect responses to stress. This study extends prior work to investigate chronic stress experience, sleep, and physical activity as predictors of negative affect and acute stress experience during acute, sustained naturalistic stress. DESIGN Students (N = 637) were assessed during an academic semester and end-of-term final exam period. METHODS Self-report ratings of chronic stress experience, negative affect, acute stress experience, sleep, physical activity, demographics, and health were obtained. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses examined the extent to which chronic stress experience, sleep duration and sleep quality, habitual physical activity, and their interactions, predicted changes in negative affect and acute stress experience during final exams. Health-related behaviours were also examined as mediators between chronic stress experience and changes in negative affect and acute stress experience. RESULTS Greater chronic stress experience and shorter exam period sleep duration, but not habitual sleep duration or physical activity, predicted greater increases in negative affect and acute stress experience. Poorer overall sleep quality was a significant predictor in these models and partially mediated the relation between chronic stress experience and negative affect and acute stress experience. CONCLUSIONS Findings highlight the importance of chronic stress experience and sleep in predicting individuals' affective health during naturalistic stress. Interventions that reduce chronic stress experience and improve sleep may help individuals' buffer against impairments to affective health during these episodes.
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- Hannah Nordberg
- Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Luo Y, Sato Y. Relationships of Social Support, Stress, and Health among Immigrant Chinese Women in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Structural Equation Modeling. Healthcare (Basel) 2021; 9:healthcare9030258. [PMID: 33804514 PMCID: PMC7998279 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9030258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Revised: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Social support could help immigrant Chinese women in Japan to improve health. However, these women suffer from numerous stresses associated with acculturation and child-rearing, which could impact the effect of social support on mental and physical health. This study aims to identify the relationships among social support, acculturative stress, parenting stress, mental health, and physical health to propose a structural path model of these relationships and to evaluate the mediating role of stress between social support and health. A questionnaire was used to collect data for the main variables and demographic factors. A total of 109 women participated (mean age 33.9 ± 5.6 years). The results show that immigrant Chinese women in Japan experienced a low level of mental health (44.7 ± 9.8). Additionally, social support directly influenced parenting stress (β = −0.21, p < 0.05), acculturative stress (β = −0.19, p < 0.05), and mental health (β = 0.31, p < 0.001) and indirectly influenced physical health (β = 0.09, p < 0.05). Parenting stress partially mediated the association between social support and mental health (β = 0.09, p < 0.05). To protect the effectiveness of social support on mental health, it is essential to reduce the parenting stress of immigrant Chinese women.
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- Yunjie Luo
- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0812, Japan;
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0812, Japan
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Härdelin G, Holding BC, Reess T, Geranmayeh A, Axelsson J, Sundelin T. Do Mothers Have Worse Sleep Than Fathers? Sleep Imbalance, Parental Stress, and Relationship Satisfaction in Working Parents. Nat Sci Sleep 2021; 13:1955-1966. [PMID: 34764711 PMCID: PMC8576759 DOI: 10.2147/nss.s323991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Previous research indicates that mothers take a larger responsibility for child care during the night and that they have more disturbed sleep than fathers. The purpose of this study was to determine whether such a sleep imbalance exists in working parents of young children, and the extent to which it depends on the way sleep is measured. The study also examined whether imbalanced sleep between parents predicts parental stress and relationship satisfaction. METHODS Sleep was measured for seven consecutive days in 60 parenting couples (average age of the youngest child: 3.3 years ± SD 2.5 years). Actigraphs were worn across the week, and ratings of sleep, parental stress, and relationship satisfaction were made daily. RESULTS Mothers perceived their sleep quality as worse (b= -0.38 scale units, p<0.001), with more wake periods (b= +0.96 awakenings, p<0.001) but with longer sleep duration (b= +32.4 min, p<0.01) than fathers. Actigraphy data confirmed that mothers slept longer than fathers (b= +28.03 min, p<0.001), but no significant differences were found for wake time, number of awakenings or who woke up first during shared awakenings. Furthermore, there was no difference in whether mothers and fathers slept sufficiently. The level of sleep imbalance between parents did not predict parental stress. A larger imbalance in subjective sleep sufficiency predicted decreased relationship satisfaction for fathers (b= -0.13 scale units, p<0.01) but increased relationship satisfaction for mothers (b= 0.14 scale units, p<0.05). No other sleep imbalance measures predicted relationship satisfaction. CONCLUSION Our findings are in line with previous research on sleep in men and women in general, with longer sleep and subjective reports of sleep disturbances in women, rather than previous research on sleep in parents of young children. Thus, we found no evidence of a sleep imbalance when both parents have similar working responsibilities.
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- Göran Härdelin
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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OBJECTIVE Greater negative affect has been associated with an increased risk of the metabolic syndrome (METs). However, all studies to date have examined this association using explicit affect measures based on subjective ratings of emotional experiences. Prior studies suggest that implicit affect, representing the automatic, prereflective appraisal process involved in conscious emotional experiences, is associated with physiological stress responses independent of explicit affect. Furthermore, low resting heart rate variability (HRV) may increase the risk of stress-related diseases. The goals of this study were to evaluate the associations between implicit and explicit affect and METs and to assess whether these associations were amplified by lower HRV. METHODS This secondary analysis of a larger study included 217 middle-aged women who completed measures of implicit affect, explicit affect, high-frequency HRV, and the different components of METs. RESULTS There was a significant interaction between implicit negative affect and HRV predicting METs (odds ratio = 0.57, 95% confidence interval = 0.35-0.92), such that the combination of higher implicit affect and lower HRV was associated with a greater likelihood of METs. Similarly, there was a main effect of implicit negative affect as well as an interaction between implicit negative affect and HRV on the lipid accumulation product (b (standard error) = -0.06 (0.02), 95% confidence interval = -0.11 to -0.02), a combination of waist circumference and triglycerides. CONCLUSIONS Higher implicit negative affect in the context of lower HRV may be related to a greater risk of METs. The present findings highlight the relevance of including implicit affect measures in psychosomatic medicine research.
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Varma P, Conduit R, Junge M, Jackson ML. Examining Sleep and Mood in Parents of Children with Sleep Disturbances. Nat Sci Sleep 2020; 12:865-874. [PMID: 33154690 PMCID: PMC7608549 DOI: 10.2147/nss.s271140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE The current study examined sleep and mood associations in parents of children with sleep disturbances across a sample of typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The mediating effect of children's sleep on the relationship between parents' sleep and mood was also assessed. The study explored differences in parents' sleep based on whether 1) the child had a sleep disturbance, and 2) the child was typically developing or had a neurodevelopmental disorder. METHODS A total of 293 parents of children aged 2-12 years completed an online questionnaire. Parental sleep was examined using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale and the Pre-sleep Arousal Scale, and mood was assessed using the Profile of Mood States-short form. Measures for children included the Child's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. RESULTS Across the overall sample, children's sleep disturbances were associated with parents' sleep disturbances, accounting for 22% of the change in parental sleep quality. Children's sleep partially mediated parents' sleep and mood. Significant differences were observed for sleep and mood outcomes in parents of children with sleep disturbances (CSHQ scores ≥41). However, no significant differences were reported for children's sleep disturbances and parents' sleep quality based on whether the child was typically developing or had a neurodevelopmental disorder. CONCLUSION Parents of children with sleep disturbances experience poor sleep and high pre-sleep arousal, indicative of insomnia. Given that these parents experience cognitive arousal and insomnia, it is recommended that parents' sleep problems are addressed and treated in clinical settings.
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- Prerna Varma
- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Sleep Health Foundation, Blacktown, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia
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Continisio GI, Serra N, Guillari A, Civitella MT, Sepe A, Simeone S, Gargiulo G, Toscano S, Esposito MR, Raia V, Rea T. An investigation on parenting stress of children with cystic fibrosis. Ital J Pediatr 2020; 46:33. [PMID: 32183848 PMCID: PMC7079368 DOI: 10.1186/s13052-020-0795-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Background The management of chronic diseases, particularly in children, requires an integrated physical and psychological approach to both sick children and their family. This is the case of Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a complex genetic chronic disease, where, a comprehensive evaluation of the emotional impact and an effective multidimensional approach are indicated. Aim This study investigates on parenting stress in children and adolescents with CF and its determinants related to parents, children and the disease severity. Methods The study involved 34.04% adult males and 65.96% adult females (range 21-55 years) and 47 children with CF, 54.35% males and 45.65% females (range 1-17 years). The data were obtained through a Parenting Stress Index – Short Form (PSI-SF) questionnaire. According to the PSI-SF scoring system, three types of stress were detected: a typical stress pattern (normal), a high stress pattern (increased) and a defensive response, which may be considered as a high stress feature in children which requires monitoring and clinical evaluation. Results This study shows a significant presence of stress in females (60.23%), of subject married (84.62%), unemployed (69.23%) and with education level such as “middle School” (61.54%). Concerning children of parents with high stress, it resulted most frequent children with one sibling (53.85%). Finally, by univariate analysis, it resulted a significant positive correlation between parenting stress and disease degree of children. Instead by multivariate analysis, we found that the variables: Number of siblings and Birth order were a significant positive and negative predictor of parenting stress respectively. Conclusion An increased stress level was detected in less than one third of parents of subjects with CF. These data may be related to the psychological support which is part of the routine management of CF care team. However, as children’s features seem to act as a determinant of stress more than parental ones, the parental-child dysfunction should be the target for further integrated interventions.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy.
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- Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Garefelt J, Platts LG, Hyde M, Magnusson Hanson LL, Westerlund H, Åkerstedt T. Reciprocal relations between work stress and insomnia symptoms: A prospective study. J Sleep Res 2019; 29:e12949. [PMID: 31793085 PMCID: PMC7154699 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Work stress and poor sleep are closely related in cross-sectional data, but evidence from prospective data is limited. We analysed how perceived stress and work stressors (work demands, decision authority and workplace social support) are related to key dimensions of insomnia over time, using structural equation modelling. Biennial measurements from a large sample of the working population in Sweden enabled us to analyse both the relationship from stress to sleep as well as that from sleep to stress. Overall, we found reciprocal relations between insomnia and all four stress measures. However, looking at the relation between each dimension of insomnia and each stress measure, there were some differences in direction of effects. In the direction from stress to sleep, all work stressors as well as perceived stress predicted both difficulties initiating sleep and difficulties maintaining sleep. The same was found for non-restorative sleep, with the exception for decision authority. In the opposite direction, difficulties maintaining sleep predicted increased levels of work demands and perceived stress. Difficulties initiating sleep stood out among the insomnia symptoms as not predicting any of the stress measures, while non-restorative sleep was the only symptom predicting all stress measures. The results advance the understanding of the stress-sleep relationship and indicate a potential vicious circle between insomnia and perceived stress as well as work stressors, suggesting that the workplace could be an arena for interventions to alleviate insomnia.
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- Johanna Garefelt
- Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Innovative Ageing, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Lillis TA, Hamilton NA, Pressman SD, Ziadni MS, Khou CS, Boddy LE, Wagner LM. Sleep quality buffers the effects of negative social interactions on maternal mood in the 3-6 month postpartum period: a daily diary study. J Behav Med 2018; 41:733-746. [PMID: 30191435 PMCID: PMC6404752 DOI: 10.1007/s10865-018-9967-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Sleep and social relationships are two key determinants of psychosocial health that undergo considerable change across the transition to motherhood. The current study investigated the bidirectional relationship between daytime Positive and Negative Social Interactions (PSIs & NSIs) and nighttime sleep quality on maternal mood across 1 week in the 3-6 month postpartum period. Sixty healthy, non-depressed first-time mothers completed 7-consecutive days of daily social interaction and sleep diaries. Results indicated that higher than average sleep quality buffered the effect of higher than average NSIs on maternal mood (i.e., buffered mood reactivity) and appeared to promote mood recovery following a particularly "bad day" (i.e., higher than average NSIs). In addition, although PSIs were more common than NSIs overall, the most frequent and positively rated PSIs were with baby as were the most frequent and negatively rated NSIs. To our knowledge, our results are the first to characterize the impact of PSIs on postpartum maternal mood, assess maternal-infant social interactions in daily diary study of postpartum social relationships, and demonstrate the role that maternal sleep quality plays in social discord-related mood reactivity and mood recovery processes in the 3-6 month postpartum period.
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- Teresa A Lillis
- Department Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1645 W. Jackson Blvd., Ste. 400, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 426, Lawrence, KS, 6604, USA
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- University of California Irvine, 4201 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, Stanford University, Ste. 200, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 426, Lawrence, KS, 6604, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Room 426, Lawrence, KS, 6604, USA
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- Department Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1645 W. Jackson Blvd., Ste. 400, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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