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Self-reported sleep quality, weight status and depression in young adult twins and siblings

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Title
Self-reported sleep quality, weight status and depression in young adult twins and siblings
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BMC Obesity, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s40608-015-0079-8
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Alexia Sawyer, Abi Fisher, Clare Llewellyn, Alice M. Gregory

Abstract

Research supporting relationships between sleep quality, weight, depression and anxiety has typically examined the relationships separately rather than simultaneously, potentially hampering insights into the characteristics of reported links. This study aimed to fill this gap in the research to provide further insight into the factors associated with sleep. Data from wave 4 of the G1219 cohort were used in cross-sectional analyses. The sample comprised 1392 adult twins and siblings aged 18-27 years. Participants completed a self-report questionnaire which included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index as a measure of sleep quality, the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire as a measure of depression symptoms and the Revised Symptoms of Anxiety Scale as a measure of anxiety symptoms. Participants were asked to self-report general health and weight and height so researchers could derive weight status from measures of body mass index. An analysis of covariance including weight status, depression, anxiety and general health as predictors and sleep quality as the outcome revealed main effects of depression (F(3,1163) = 10.93, p < 0.001) and general health (F(4,1163) = 5.72, p < 0.001) only. A direct relationship between weight and sleep should not be assumed as it is possible that the relationship is at least in part accounted for by depression symptoms or general health. Depression symptoms and general health may also account for the association between sleep quality and anxiety symptoms in young adults.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 14%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 6 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 27%
Psychology 7 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 9 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2015.
All research outputs
#15,557,505
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Obesity
#131
of 179 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#222,897
of 395,734 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Obesity
#7
of 9 outputs
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