Sleep
445 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Relationship between cardiovascular health score trajectory and incident stroke in patients with hypertension.
In hypertensive patients, the long-term maintenance of a high CVH score or an improvement in CVH score is associated with a lower risk of stroke than a low-stable CVH score trajectory.
The Effect of Evening Technology Use on Objective Sleep in Older Adults: Protocol for a Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial.
This protocol describes a randomized crossover trial designed to investigate how active versus passive evening technology use, compared with book reading, affects objective and subjective sleep outcomes in older adults aged 60-75 years.
Video gaming linked to unhealthy diet, poor sleep quality and lower physical activity levels in Australian university students.
Higher video gaming frequency was associated with poorer diet quality and increased BMI among university students, with total gaming hours independently predicting poorer diet quality after controlling for demographic and lifestyle factors.
Impact of physical exercise on sleep quality in college students: A Chain mediating role of self-efficacy and emotional control.
Physical exercise indirectly optimises sleep quality in college students through a dynamic and synergistic mechanism involving the enhancement of self-efficacy and emotional control, with indirect effects comprising the predominant mechanism.
Latent profile analysis of impulsivity in adolescents and the relationship with sleep quality: A multicenter cross-sectional study in western China.
Four distinct subtypes of adolescent impulsivity were identified via latent profile analysis, each variably associated with specific dimensions of sleep quality, suggesting targeted intervention strategies tailored to specific 'impulsivity subtype-sleep problem' profiles.
Daytime sleepiness and specific food cravings: The moderating role of insulin sensitivity.
Daytime sleepiness is positively associated with cravings for a range of food types, and these associations were increased in persons with more diminished insulin sensitivity, independent of covariates.
Examining oxidative stress as a mechanistic link between sleep irregularity and cardiovascular risk in young adults with chronic anxiety.
Antioxidant supplementation reduced oxidative stress and normalized blood pressure control differences between groups, implicating oxidative stress as a key mechanism linking sleep irregularity and CVD risk in young adults with chronic anxiety.
Effect of a digital-based integrated exercise and sleep intervention for older adults with depression: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial.
This paper presents a study protocol for the Geriatric Exercise-Sleep Optimization (GESO) project, a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a 12-week combined exercise and sleep health intervention in alleviating depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults with depression.
Hyperoside-Rich Blueberry Leaf Tea Improves Sleep Continuity in Adults with Poor Sleep: A Two-Week Randomized Double-Blind Controlled Trial.
Fermented blueberry leaf tea significantly improved sleep efficiency and wake after sleep onset compared to placebo over two weeks in adults with poor sleep, with greater benefits observed in individuals with worse baseline sleep.
Depressive symptoms among kidney transplant recipients: Modeling stress-related pathways involving chronotype, perceived stress, rumination, and sleep quality.
Chronotype affects depressive symptoms in kidney transplant recipients primarily through indirect pathways involving perceived stress, rumination, and sleep quality, suggesting the need to incorporate chronotype assessment into post-transplant care.
Depression as a Risk Moderator Factor for Sleep Quality in Highly Sensitive People.
Depression significantly moderates the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and sleep quality, exacerbating sleep disturbances among highly sensitive individuals with severe depressive symptoms.
Maternal well-being in the postpartum period: The mediating role of breastfeeding self-efficacy, sleep quality, and husband's support.
Husband's support was significantly associated with maternal well-being both directly and indirectly through breastfeeding self-efficacy and sleep quality, accounting for 42% of the variance in well-being among postpartum women in Pariaman, Indonesia.
Factors associated with meeting the recommendations for physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep in adolescents: a cross-sectional study.
Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community factors are associated with adherence to physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep recommendations in adolescents, with only approximately 1.8% of adolescents meeting all three recommendations simultaneously.
An Integrative Analysis of Behavioral, Psychological, and Smartphone Use Factors Associated With Sleep Quality: A Cross-Sectional Study of Saudi Undergraduate Students.
Sleep quality among undergraduate students is primarily influenced by modifiable lifestyle and psychological factors, with anxiety showing the strongest dose-response effect, and evening and bedtime smartphone use predicting worse sleep independent of total usage time.
An integrated behavioral treatment for improving nocturia and insomnia symptoms in older adults (MINT): study protocol for a multi-site randomized clinical trial.
This paper describes the protocol for a multicenter parallel-group randomized efficacy trial (MINT) comparing a 5-week integrated behavioral treatment program combining CBT-I and pelvic floor muscle exercise-based behavioral therapy to a health education control in older adults with both nocturia and insomnia symptoms.
Insufficient sleep among parents of children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities: Findings from the 2011-2018 National Health Interview Survey.
Parents of children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) are significantly more likely to experience insufficient sleep than parents of children without IDD (AOR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.09-1.33), with the association most prominent among lower-income and lower-educated parents.
Exploratory Analysis of Association of Nightly Fasting and Sleep Durations with Colorectal Cancer Risk in Chinese Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Long nightly fasting duration was a risk factor for colorectal cancer, especially among individuals over 60 years old, while long nightly sleep duration was protective in Guangzhou older residents.
Resilience mediating the effects of cancer-related fatigue on depression, sleep, and quality of life among prostate cancer survivors.
Resilience partially mediates the relationship between cancer-related fatigue and depression, sleep quality, and quality of life in prostate cancer survivors, suggesting that incorporating resilience-building strategies into survivorship care may improve patient well-being.
The Increasing Trends of Short and Long Sleep Duration among Chinese Adults from 2010 to 2018: A Repeated Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Survey.
The prevalence of both short and long sleep durations significantly increased among Chinese adults from 2010 to 2018, highlighting the urgency of health initiatives to promote optimal sleep duration in China.
Efficacy and safety of Ashwagandha root extract sustained-release (AshwaSR) capsules in healthy adult, stressed subjects: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, 3-arm clinical trial.
AshwaSR 150 and 300 mg capsules reduced perceived stress and improved sleep quality, eating behavior, and psychological well-being and were safe in healthy adult, stressed subjects over 60 days of administration.
Randomised controlled trial of online behavioural sleep intervention for children with epilepsy.
An online behavioural sleep intervention (COSI) added to standard care for children with epilepsy showed significant superiority of standard care alone on the primary outcome, though children in the COSI group showed a mean 16.5-minute reduction in sleep onset latency by actigraphy and parents increased their knowledge.
Fatigue in major depression is linked to depression severity, not sleep duration or anterior cingulate cortex neurochemistry.
In unmedicated participants with MDD, fatigue is significantly associated with depression severity but not sleep duration, sleep efficiency, or anterior cingulate cortex GABA+/Glx concentrations.
Sociodemographic and maternal-related correlates of children's movement behaviours from preschool to adolescence in Singapore: a longitudinal cohort study.
Children become less physically active and have longer screen-viewing as they transition into adolescence, with the greatest declines in physical activity and increases in inactivity and screen-viewing occurring between ages 8 to 10 years, and girls, Malay ethnicity, lower socioeconomic status, and less favourable maternal movement behaviours being key correlates.
Early childhood blood lead concentrations and selective attention among school-age children: Evidence consistent with a causal association and effect modification by sleep duration.
By applying multiple causal inference approaches, this study provides robust evidence that lead exposure impairs selective attention in school-age children, with detrimental associations amplified among those sleeping ≤8 hours.
Lung computed tomography (CT) imaging findings of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with impaired sleep quality.
Impaired sleep quality in COPD patients was independently associated with diaphragm thickness, wall area percentage, and pulmonary artery to aorta ratio, with dPA/A showing the highest discriminative ability (AUC 0.688) among CT imaging parameters.
Adults with type 1 diabetes who sleep 7-9 hours per night present lower glycemic variability: a cross-sectional study.
Adults with type 1 diabetes who sleep 7-9 hours per night present lower glycemic variability compared with those sleeping less or more.
Steam-assisted respiratory muscle training may improve sleep quality in mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea: a pilot polysomnography study.
Steam-assisted respiratory muscle training did not significantly alter respiratory or sleep continuity indices in mild-to-moderate OSA but was associated with modest changes in REM architecture and limb movements in this non-controlled pilot setting.
Nationwide Online Stress Survey of 100,000 People in Japan.
A nationwide online survey of 100,000 people in Japan found that 14.8% of men and 17.7% of women were classified as high-stress, with younger adults (20s and 30s), those with short sleep time, long working hours, and low household income being most affected.
Endogenous circadian rhythm sleep disorders through the lens of nonparametric variables of actigraphy: an exploratory study in myotonic dystrophy type 1.
DM1 patients exhibit poorer sleep quality, delayed sleep-wake episodes, and reduced daylight exposure compared to healthy controls, with 18.2% presenting circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders (delayed sleep phase disorder or irregular sleep-wake rhythm disorder), suggesting the need to systematically screen DM1 patients for CRSWDs.
Periodic and Aperiodic Electroencephalographic Rhythms During Vigilance Transitions in Alzheimer's Disease Mild Cognitive Impairment.
ADMCI participants showed reduced reactivity of individual alpha power between wakefulness and light sleep stages compared to controls, while periodic and aperiodic signatures of sleep onset were relatively preserved, suggesting selective vulnerability of attentional thalamocortical systems in prodromal AD.
[Investigation on characteristics and influencing factors in anxiety and depression among patients with common vestibular vertigo].
People with vestibular vertigo are prone to anxiety and depression, with female gender, higher educational level, poorer sleep quality, and more severe vestibular symptoms as risk factors for anxiety, and non-BPPV diagnosis, poorer sleep quality, and more severe vestibular symptoms as risk factors for depression.
Influence of Ward Nighttime Noise Management on Sleep Quality and Negative Emotions in Postoperative Patients with Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head within an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Context.
Incorporating ward nighttime noise management into ERAS protocols improves sleep quality, reduces negative emotions, and effectively lowers noise levels in ONFH patients after THA.
Role of lactic acid-mediated ALKBH5 in depression induced by blue light exposure at night.
Nighttime artificial blue light exposure is significantly associated with adolescent depression, and mechanistically operates through a lactic acid-ALKBH5-m6A axis that disrupts neuronal plasticity in the lateral habenula.
Time-of-day differences in daily functioning in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Children with OCD demonstrated marked domain-specific functional impairments, particularly during school, after school, and nighttime routines, with distinct psychosocial factors including behavioral problems, sibling presence, and anxiety symptoms associated with time-specific functioning.
Effects of controlled carbon dioxide delivery by a novel device on sleep in healthy subjects.
Overnight inhalation of 2.5% CO2 delivered via a novel low-resistance open-mask system enhances sleep efficiency without adverse physiological effects, and concentrations ≤3.5% appear safe with no cumulative effect observed after multiple consecutive nights.
An open science resource for accelerating scalable digital health research in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions.
The Simons Sleep Project is an open-science resource containing data from >3,600 days and nights from 102 autistic children and 98 nonautistic siblings, demonstrating that digital devices have higher accuracy and reliability compared to parent reports, and that autistic children have longer sleep-onset latencies associated with behavioral difficulties.
The relationship between chronic stress, co-occurring conditions, sleep, and autistic features including severity using hair cortisol concentration.
Higher severity of autistic traits, co-occurring ADHD, internalising and maladaptive behaviours were significantly associated with lower normalised hair cortisol concentration (HCC), while higher sleep anxiety and IQ were associated with higher HCC, indicating the clinical value of HCC as a viable biomarker to identify subgroups based on co-occurring medical and mental health conditions.
Effect of White Noise Therapy Combined with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy on Clinical Symptoms, Psychological Stress and Sleep Quality in Depressed Patients.
White noise therapy combined with cognitive behavioural therapy may have positive effects on patients with mild to moderate depression, including improvements in clinical symptoms, psychological stress response and sleep quality, with superior outcomes versus CBT alone or conventional therapy.
The effectiveness of white noise for sleep quality in patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a randomized controlled trial.
White noise intervention at 40-50 dB from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for three consecutive nights may increase subjectively assessed sleep quality in ICU patients.
Identifying heart rate characteristics of sleep states of preterm infants using video analysis.
Heart rate range demonstrates distinct variability patterns between quiet sleep and active sleep in preterm infants, with an area under the curve of 0.88 at a threshold of 18 bpm distinguishing the two states.
Intact sleep-dependent memory consolidation of auditory statistical learning among young adults with ADHD.
Sleep has a protective effect on memory consolidation of statistical regularities, and participants with ADHD were capable of learning and consolidating statistical structures at the same level as controls.
Changes in repetitive negative thinking and stress perception mediate treatment effects of a transdiagnostic exercise intervention.
Changes in perceived stress and repetitive negative thinking fully mediated the treatment effects of a transdiagnostic exercise intervention on global symptom severity, suggesting these may be key transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying the treatment effect of exercise.
Subjective sleep quality predict clinical pain severity more strongly than polysomnographic parameters: Machine learning findings from a cross-sectional study.
Subjective experiences of post-sleep activity and vigilance were the strongest predictors of clinical pain severity, rather than physiologically measured sleep quality, with sleep profiles increasing explained variance in pain from 32% to 35%.
Clinical evaluation of Suanzaoren decoction for sleep disturbance and cancer-related fatigue in patients with lung cancer receiving chemotherapy: A retrospective study.
Suanzaoren decoction may be associated with improved subjective sleep quality and reduced cancer-related fatigue in lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, though further prospective large-scale studies are warranted to confirm these results.
The Impact of Moderate to High Intensity Physical Activity on Sleep Health in Cancer Survivors.
Moderate- to high-intensity physical activity was associated with improved sleep health outcomes in cancer survivors, supporting 'the role of moderate- to high-intensity physical activity in improving sleep health in a diverse cancer survivor population.'
The Relationship Between Emotional Eating Behavior and Internet Addiction in Junior High School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Emotional eating is associated with internet addiction in junior high school students through independent and chain-mediating effects of sleep quality and depression, revealing a statistical mediation pathway of 'maladaptive emotion regulation → circadian disruption → psychopathology → addictive behavior.'
Sleep quality and its determinants among family caregivers of patients with cancer in oncologic centers of Northwest Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study.
Poor sleep quality was reported among 68.9% of family caregivers of cancer patients in Northwest Ethiopia, with chronic illness, depression, anxiety, and poor social support identified as significant determinants.
[New Opportunities in the Treatment of Moderate Cognitive Impairment: Results of the Millennium Study in Real Clinical Practice].
The program demonstrated the clinical effectiveness and good tolerability of Miladean (memantine+melatonin) in routine practice for patients with mild cognitive impairment.
Cross-sectional associations between actigraphy-measured sleep and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure phenotypes among self-reported short sleepers with elevated blood pressure.
Among short-sleeping adults with elevated blood pressure, longer actigraphy-measured total sleep time relates to more favorable nocturnal BP, specifically lower diastolic non-dipping, although effects attenuate with full adjustment.
Impact of Noise from Heat Pumps on Sleep, Noise Annoyance, and Concentration in Healthy Adults in a Laboratory Setting.
Residential air-source heat-pump noise can impair both sleep parameters and daytime functioning, underscoring the need to consider its health impact in residential settings.