Associations between sleep disturbance and mental health status: A longitudinal study of Japanese junior high school students

Kaneita, Yoshitaka; Yokoyama, Eise; Harano, Satoru; Tamaki, Takehiro; Suzuki, Hiroyuki; Munezawa, Takeshi; Nakajima, Hiromi; Asai, Takami; Ohida, Takashi

doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2008.06.014

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“…problems falling asleep and impaired sleep quality) are in line with previous studies showing that students suffering from nightmares rated their sleep quality as poorer [6], and were more affected by their dreams and nightmares, than did controls [7]. Also, Muneza was stated that nightmares are associated with insomnia and that these factors are associated with each other [20]. However, suffering from nightmares and sleep problems may be a stress factor itself for students, leading to an enhanced risk for psychological burdens or learning problems [21].…”

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Nightmares and Associations with Sleep Quality and Self-Efficacy among University Students

Schlarb

Bihlmaier²,

Hautzinger³

et al. 2015

J Sleep Disord Manag

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However, frequency should also be taken into account as the results of Sweileh and colleagues showed with 12.8% of the students having nightmares 1-2 times a week, 2.5% having nightmares 3-4 nights a week, whereas 3.5% of students suffered from nightmares almost every night [5]. In the study of Schredl (2003) 52.2% of students experienced nightmares once a month or more often, whereas 12.1% reported that nightmares occur at least once a week. This broad range of prevalence rates is often based on question type and the absence of the awakening criterion [6].Various other factors are associated with nightmares and nightmare frequency. Over all, woman report more often nightmares than men also in students [7][8][9]. Mental disorders as anxiety or post traumatic stress disorder are often associated or the underlying disorder [10,11]. Furthermore, significant correlations between nightmares and insomnia or sleep quality complaints have been reported by various studies also including students [6,4,5] affecting the dreamer [6].In addition, Schredl (2003) compared the effects of trait and state factors on nightmare frequency in mainly psychology students. Neuroticism and thinness of boundaries were related to nightmare frequency. Beyond that, state factors as well as trait factors affected nightmare frequency; besides the effect of current stress. Students are faced with multiple challenging facets of their lives such as changing their place of residence, new city, new classes, later on exams, work, and relationships. The amount of requirements often leads to stress and sleep problems [12,13].Besides high school graduation, self-efficacy is a predictor of academic success [14]. Self-efficacy is the ability to manage future behaviour and the expectation that a person has toward actions mastered by self-competence. Bandura, suggests that students' beliefs in their self-efficacy, to regulate their own competence, play a key role in mastering academic demands [15].Beyond that, Bouchard and colleagues associated low self-efficacy AbstractSleep problems are a common complaint among adults. In university students international studies showed prevalence rates between 4.7 and 36.2% for sleep difficulties and 2-3% of students report nightmares. Previous studies show that nightmares are often associated with insomnia and mental strain, but also with gender. The goal of this study was to outline nightmares, associations with sleep disturbances and mental strain as well as self-efficacy among university students. An amount of 2196 students (70.9% women; mean age 24.16 years) participated in the study. Sleep characteristics, nightmares, mental strain and self-efficacy were assessed by self-report questionnaires. Analyses revealed that more than 24.3% of surveyed students suffered from nightmares, 18.5% reported nightmares more often than once a week and 5.8% suffered from nightmares at least 3 times a week. Moreover, nightmares were associated with symptoms of insomnia and low self-efficacy was significantly associated with an increa...

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confidence: 87%

Nightmares and Associations with Sleep Quality and Self-Efficacy among University Students

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Bihlmaier²,

Hautzinger³

et al. 2015

J Sleep Disord Manag

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“…Furthermore, sleep quality is often discussed in context with mental health. Evidence supports the hypothesis that poor sleep quality is associated with decreased mental health and well-being (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8).…”

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Associations of Subjective Sleep Quality with Depression Score, Anxiety, Physical Symptoms and Sleep Onset Latency in Young Students

Augner¹

2011

Cent Eur J Public Health

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SUMMARYObjective: Sleep quality is strongly associated with parameters of mental and physical health and therefore a major public health issue. We wanted to evaluate this association in young and healthy students by a survey. Further, we aimed to detect the relevance of sleep onset latency and sleep duration for sleep quality.Methods: A group of young nursing and technical students was surveyed (N=196) with the objective to measure subjective sleep quality, sleep onset latency, sleep duration, depression score, physical symptoms, trait-anxiety, and pathological eating behaviours.Results: Subjective sleep quality was strongly negative correlated with depression score (Pearson's r=−0.57), physical symptoms (r=−0.51) and trait-anxiety (r=−0.54) (p<0.001 for all three). Subjective sleep quality's association with sleep onset latency was stronger than with sleep duration. Further, high depression score (odds ratio OR=3.90; 95% confidence interval CI=1.88-8.06) and long sleep onset latency (OR=3.56; 95%CI=1.65-7.69) were the best predictors of poor subjective sleep quality.Conclusions: This study supports evidence that links physical and mental symptoms with poor sleep quality. Especially important is the fact that we found this connection in young and basically healthy adults. Taking into account that poor sleep quality has major negative long term impact on health, prevention programmes should focus especially on the association between depressive symptoms and subjective sleep quality that is significantly influenced by sleep onset latency.

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“…9,10 The questionnaire uses a 19-item scale designed to measure self-reported sleep duration, overall perception of quality of sleep, sleep disturbances, daytime sleepiness, history of snoring and the use of any sleep medication over a 1-month period. The questions were designed to reflect both weeknight and weekend…”

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Sleep disturbance and cardiovascular risk in adolescents

Narang

Manlhiot

Davies-Shaw

et al. 2012

CMAJ

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Associations between sleep disturbance and mental health status: A longitudinal study of Japanese junior high school students

Cited by 131 publications

References 23 publications

Nightmares and Associations with Sleep Quality and Self-Efficacy among University Students

Nightmares and Associations with Sleep Quality and Self-Efficacy among University Students

Associations of Subjective Sleep Quality with Depression Score, Anxiety, Physical Symptoms and Sleep Onset Latency in Young Students

Sleep disturbance and cardiovascular risk in adolescents

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