Sleep

445 peer-reviewed studies indexed

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Impact of increased educational screen exposure on adolescent overweight and the mediating role of physical activity and sleep quality: a natural experiment study from China.

Educational screen exposure may contribute to increased overweight in adolescents by reducing physical exercise and impairing sleep quality, with the increase in overweight prevalence 3.1% greater in the exposure group than the control group.

Obesogenic behaviors during structured periods among children and adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Periods of greater structure were associated with more favorable physical activity and diet outcomes among children and adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, while sleep and sedentary/screen time did not align with the Structured Days Hypothesis.

The effectiveness of nursing interventions on fatigue and sleep quality in hospitalized cancer patients: the role of foot massage and bed bath.

Foot massage and bed baths serve as effective supplementary nursing interventions for reducing fatigue and improving sleep quality in hospitalized cancer patients.

The relationship between intake of dietary omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and sleep quality in older adults with diabetes: A hospital-based analysis.

Insufficient marine omega-3 intake, particularly DHA and EPA, is a modifiable risk factor for sleep impairment in older adults with diabetes.

Reappraising negative situations after a night of sleep deprivation.

Sleep deprivation negatively impacts reappraisal, reducing its effectiveness in regulating valence, and shows a dissociation between valence and arousal regulation after sleep loss.

Digital markers and phenotypes of rest-activity rhythms in people with advanced dementia using real-time location data.

Real-time location system (RTLS) technology can derive digital markers and phenotypes of rest-activity rhythms in people with advanced dementia, with RTLS-derived markers associated with clinical assessments of motor agitation and sleep disruption over time.

REM-related obstructive sleep apnoea in neuromuscular diseases: A 10-year retrospective cohort study.

Despite markedly reduced REM sleep in neuromuscular diseases, OSA and particularly REM-related OSA are common, and REM-related OSA is independently associated with morning hypercapnia and FVC decline, suggesting that REM-stage characteristics may be predictive of subsequent chronic respiratory failure.

Ecological momentary assessment of daily patient-reported outcomes and actigraphy-measured physical activity and sleep in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis: a study protocol.

This paper presents a protocol for a pilot study assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a 14-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol combined with actigraphy to monitor patient-reported outcomes and physical activity in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis.

Assessing Sleep Architecture in Rural Eastern Cape Villagers of South Africa Using ŌURA Ring Data.

Rural Eastern Cape villagers showed average Total Sleep Time of 7.6 hours, with men responsible for livestock having significantly higher % Light Sleep and lower % REM Sleep, and temperature being associated with changes in all sleep stages.

Day-to-day fluctuations in cognitive precision predict the domain-general intention-behavior gap.

Within-person upswings in domain-general cognitive processing precision precede and predict same-day self-reported goal setting and achievement across both academic and nonacademic domains, even controlling for other factors.

Sleep health in the family Context: Predictors and qualitative exploration of parentally perceived early childhood insomnia.

Parentally perceived early childhood insomnia is associated with reduced infant nocturnal sleep continuity, increased maternal daytime dysfunction, and poorer paternal sleep quality, with parental emotional adaptation and expectations shaping the perception of sleep problems.

Effects of Ward Noise on Sleep Quality and Emotional State in Older Patients with Proximal Humerus Fractures: A Retrospective Study.

Elevated noise levels in hospital wards correlate with impaired sleep quality, worsened emotional state, heightened physiological stress, and prolonged recovery in older patients with proximal humerus fractures, highlighting the importance of noise-reduction interventions in orthopedic wards.

Sleep disorders in RA, axSpA and PsA are common despite good disease activity control-direct comparison of sleep quality and its risk factors using MDHAQ and PSQI.

Sleep disorders are common in RA, axSpA, and PsA despite well-controlled disease activity, highlighting the role of non-inflammatory factors, and the MDHAQ could serve as a screening tool for identifying poor sleep quality.

Total dairy consumption is associated with healthy sleep patterns in U.S. adults.

Dairy consumption is associated with improved odds of adequate sleep, no trouble sleeping, and less variable sleep in U.S. adults.

Long-term risk of bowel resection and mortality associated with sleep behaviours and sleep pattern in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a large-scale prospective cohort study.

A healthy sleep pattern, particularly sleep duration and early chronotype, is associated with reduced all-cause mortality risk in patients with IBD, with probably beneficial effect on lowering risk of bowel resection, highlighting the importance of maintaining healthy sleep behaviours for long-term prognosis in IBD.

Subjective social isolation and associated factors in older people with mild cognitive impairment: The role of sleep quality, fear of dementia, and health empowerment.

Subjective social isolation in older people with mild cognitive impairment is at a high level and is closely related to sleep quality, dementia fear, and health empowerment, with marital status, residential status, hobbies, health empowerment, and dementia fear explaining 21.9% of the total variance.

Training and Integration of Eat, Sleep, Console Model for Infants and Families at an Urban Academic Health Center.

ESC education enhanced preparedness of birthing staff and clinicians to implement the nonpharmacologic ESC tool for management of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, with coordinated, multidisciplinary education and collaboration supporting successful implementation in clinical settings.

The risk assessment of sleep duration on geriatric sarcopenia and its regulatory role in the effect of BMI index on geriatric sarcopenia based on the CHARLS database.

Abnormal sleep durations including sleep deprivation and oversleeping are linked to a heightened risk of sarcopenia among older adults, and sleep duration moderates the association between BMI and sarcopenia risk.

Chronic pain and risk of gastrointestinal diseases in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults: The roles of depression and sleep.

Chronic pain is an independent risk factor for GstrointestinalI diseases in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults, with depression and sleep duration partially mediating this relationship.

Beyond counting sheep: social and behavioral determinants of adolescent sleep quality in the Czech Republic.

No single factor showed a large clinical effect on adolescent sleep quality, but cumulative influences of sex, sleep duration, age, overall health, academic pressure, and perceived family support were meaningful, while friend support and physical activity showed no meaningful associations.

Device-assessed sleep health among older patients with heart failure: a cross-sectional study using actigraphy.

Older adults with heart failure who had inefficient sleep had significantly higher NT-proBNP levels, and sleep irregularity was linked to HF symptom load, frailty, functional performance, and quality of life.

Evolution into spike-and-wave activation in sleep in patients with self-limited focal epilepsies.

Among 144 patients with self-limited focal epilepsies of childhood, 8.3% evolved into spike-and-wave activation in sleep (SWAS), with the majority also developing cognitive or behavioral regression consistent with epileptic encephalopathy.

Digital behavior and anxiety in the post-pandemic era: a five-year analysis of screen time, sleep, and behavioral risk profiles.

Screen time and social media use were positively associated with anxiety while sleep duration showed a protective effect, with a high-screen and low-sleep behavioral profile comprising 34.3% of the sample exhibiting the highest mean anxiety levels.

The effects of sports nutrition diet, physical activity and sleep quality on health behavior in primary and secondary school students: A cross-sectional study based on the COM-B model.

Sports nutrition diet, physical activity, and sleep quality collectively have a significant positive influence on adolescent health behavior, with dietary behaviors exhibiting the strongest direct effect and sleep quality and physical activity serving as significant mediating pathways.

Associations between Sleep Problems, Psychotic Experiences and Mental Disorders in Children at Familial High Risk of Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder and Population-based controls - The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study.

Nightmares, prolonged sleep latency, and nocturnal awakenings are associated with psychotic experiences and mental disorders in children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and population-based controls, with associations being non-differential across familial risk groups.

What Role Do Perfectionism and Cognitive Pre-Sleep Arousal Play in the Link Between Stress and Sleep? A Daily Diary Study in University Students.

Daily stress robustly impairs sleep and elevates cognitive pre-sleep arousal, which partially mediates its negative effects on sleep variables, while multidimensional perfectionism was not associated with sleep nor did it moderate the stress-sleep link.

Effect of aromatic stimulation on CPAP adherence and sleep quality in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a pilot study.

Aromatic stimulation with essential oils shows promise in improving both CPAP adherence and sleep quality, offering a novel approach to enhance OSA treatment efficacy.

Development of a probability model for high-resolution drowsiness detection using electroencephalogram.

A probability model using EEG relative power features successfully separated three distinct clusters of alertness (wakefulness, drowsiness, and sleep) at high resolution with a detection accuracy of 93.21% and mean silhouette value of 0.74, suggesting potential future applications in drowsiness detection.

Association of reduced REM sleep with mortality in adults with coronary artery disease and obstructive sleep apnea in the RICCADSA cohort.

Reduced REM sleep independently predicted higher all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 2.39) in revascularized coronary artery disease patients with obstructive sleep apnea over a median 4.7-year follow-up.

Rhythms and Background (RnB): The Spectroscopy of Sleep Recordings.

RnB (Rhythms and Background) is a novel wavelet-based methodology that dynamically denoises time series data of arrhythmic interference, enabling extraction of purely rhythmic time series and significantly enhancing the assessment of phase-amplitude coupling between cardinal NREM sleep oscillations compared to traditional methods.

Improved sleep quality is independently associated with decision-making recovery in panic disorder: a longitudinal study.

Improved sleep quality is independently associated with better decision-making performance in panic disorder patients over a three-month naturalistic follow-up, suggesting that addressing sleep disturbances in clinical care may be crucial for optimizing cognitive outcomes.

The moderating role of preterm infants sleep on the relationship between parental sleep and family functioning: An exploratory study.

Preterm infant sleep duration moderates the relationship between parental sleep quality and family functioning differently for mothers and fathers, with mothers' relationship being significant only when infants had shorter sleep durations and fathers' relationship being significant only when infants had average or longer sleep durations.

Association of Sociodemographic Factors with Sleep Quality in Patients on Dialysis.

Overall, 72.1% of patients on dialysis suffered from insomnia, with women having 1.88 times greater probability of suffering from insomnia compared to men, and hemodialysis patients experiencing significantly more nighttime awakenings than peritoneal dialysis patients.

Sleeping green: an Italian survey for the assessment of the relationship between sleep and vegetarian diet.

An entirely vegetarian diet was associated with lower risk of obstructive sleep apnoea and higher frequency of hypnic jerks compared to an omnivorous diet, while sleep quality, insomnia symptoms, and sleepiness did not differ between dietary groups.

The characteristics of depression and sleep status among elite Chinese badminton athletes.

Elite Chinese badminton athletes showed a high prevalence of depressive symptoms (56.4%) and poor sleep quality (32.5%), with sleep quality significantly associated with depressive symptoms (OR=0.17, 95% CI: 0.06-0.48, p<0.001).

Explore the impact of sleep-related factors on anxiety in adolescents: A meta-analysis of cross-sectional, longitudinal and RCT studies.

Sleep quality, particularly daytime dysfunction and sleep disturbance, and circadian preference are robust, prospective, and modifiable predictors of adolescent anxiety, suggesting that sleep should be prioritized as a transdiagnostic therapeutic target.

Associations of Dietary Patterns and Physical Activity with Sleep Quality and Metabolic Health Markers in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Exploratory Pilot Study.

This exploratory pilot study identifies a high-risk OSA phenotype marked by metabolic dysfunction and hypoxemia, in which eating speed, emotional and reward-driven eating, and physical activity independently shape metabolic and respiratory outcomes.

The impact of paediatric periodic limb movement disorder and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome on sleep quality and daytime symptoms.

Sleep quality worsened due to both OSA and PLMD on their own, but did not worsen further when OSA with elevated PLMI occurred, though children with both disorders had worse daytime sleepiness and restless sleep.

Sleep Quality in Patients with Epilepsy: Differences in Anxiety, Depression, and Clinical Characteristics.

Poor sleep quality was reported in 70% of epilepsy patients and was associated with increased insomnia severity, excessive daytime sleepiness, and psychiatric comorbidities, while generalized tonic-clonic seizures in the past year and specific antiepileptic drug concentrations were significantly linked to sleep outcomes.

Robust multimodal mental workload classification: A cross-physiological condition machine learning approach.

Machine learning models for mental workload classification trained under normal conditions show severely degraded performance under hypoxia and/or sleep restriction, but models trained across all physiological conditions using multimodal EEG and eye tracking data maintain robust classification performance.

Emotional exhaustion predicts poor sleep quality among orthopedic nurses: a cross-sectional study.

Job burnout significantly affects sleep quality among orthopedic nurses, with emotional exhaustion having the greatest impact, and those who are married, have long tenure, and have low income are at higher risk.

Multivariate associations of motor performance, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and grey matter volume in younger and mid-to-older adults.

Multivariate associations of better sleep quality, fewer depressive symptoms, and increased grey matter volume with better motor performance were found across younger adults but showed age-related variations, with findings not replicating in mid-to-older adults.

Evaluation of sleep quality, social-emotional development, and parental stress levels of children with atopic dermatitis.

Infants and toddlers with atopic dermatitis are at elevated risk for poor sleep, parental stress, and social-emotional challenges, with poor sleep associated with a more than 13-fold increased risk of socio-emotional delay.

Decreased sleep is linked longitudinally and directionally to alterations in the brain's intrinsic functional architecture.

Decreased sleep is linked longitudinally and directionally to alterations in the brain's intrinsic functional architecture, providing novel evidence that changes in sleep produce characteristic brain functional connectivity changes across adolescence.

Daytime napping, perceived stress, and sleep quality in university students: Insights from a cluster analysis.

Napping behavior in university students is multidimensional, with frequency predicted by sex, perceived stress, and daytime sleepiness, and three distinct student clusters emerging based on sleep disturbances, napping patterns, stress, and sleepiness.

Sleep Duration and Depression as Predictors of Cancer Incidence in Middle-aged and Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).

Longer sleep duration (≥5 h) is independently associated with a lower risk of newly-onset cancer in middle-aged and elderly adults, particularly in those with depression.

Moment-to-moment bidirectional associations between human milk glucocorticoids and infant behavior.

Higher cortisol and cortisone concentrations in human milk were associated with more infant sleep after feeding, and more infant sleep before milk collection was associated with higher milk glucocorticoid concentrations, with no associations found between milk glucocorticoids and infant crying.

Walnut peptide and theanine combination ameliorates sleep disorders: a multi-species study including a human trial.

A translational study across zebrafish, CUMS mice, and a human trial provides evidence that a combination of walnut peptide and theanine (WPT) effectively improves chronic stress-induced sleep disorders by regulating HPA axis function and restoring the duration and quality of slow-wave sleep.

Overnight sleep affects the stability of neuropsychological classification in mild cognitive impairment.

Shorter total sleep time on the night before cognitive testing was associated with higher odds of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) reversion after 1 year, suggesting acute sleep disruption may transiently impair cognition and contribute to MCI misclassification.

The relationship between sleep quality, clinical decision-making and the tendency to make medical errors in nurses.

This study found a significant relationship between nurses' sleep quality and their clinical decision-making and tendency to make medical errors, showing that sleep quality is a crucial factor influencing both clinical decision-making skills and the tendency to make medical errors.