Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression
Duration: 5 mins
Publication Date: 4 Nov 2020
Next Review Date: 4 Nov 2023
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13800
Description
In this Video Abstract, Dr. Faith Orchard discusses her JCPP paper on ‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’. Sleep problems are common in adolescence, and frequently comorbid with both anxiety and depression. Research studies have suggested a bidirectional relationship between sleep and psychopathology, which includes evidence that sleep interventions can alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, little is known about the nature of sleep problems amongst adolescents with anxiety and depression, and whether specific sleeping difficulties are involved in the longitudinal relationship between sleep, anxiety and depression.
Learning Objectives
1. Examine cross-sectional sleep habits at age 15 years and compare self-reported sleep quality and sleep patterns of those who met diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder and/or depression to those with no anxiety or depression.
2. Explore the longitudinal association between sleep patterns and quality at 15 years and (a) diagnoses of anxiety and depression in late adolescence and early adulthood, and (b) symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adulthood.
