September 16, 2025European PsychiatryOpen Access

Persistent shorter and longer sleep duration from infancy to childhood and its prospective association with chronic depression symptoms

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RARebekah AmosUniversity of Liverpool BDBuse Beril DurdurakBirmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust AGAlice M. GregoryRoyal Holloway University of London

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Prospective association of sleep duration patterns in childhood with chronic depression from age 13-22, suggesting the importance of targeted interventions.

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Persistent shorter sleep duration in childhood increases the likelihood of chronic depression symptoms in adolescence.
Initial results indicate an odds ratio of 1.94 for chronic depression symptoms linked to shorter sleep duration.
Latent Growth Curve Analysis was employed to assess sleep duration trajectories from 6 months to 7 years of age.
The findings highlight the potential for interventions targeting sleep patterns to reduce future mental health issues.

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Amos et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d454d131b076d99fa5a749 https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.504

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Prospective association of sleep duration patterns in childhood with chronic depression from age 13-22, suggesting the importance of targeted interventions.

Persistent shorter and longer sleep duration from infancy to childhood and its prospective association with chronic depression symptoms

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Persistent shorter and longer sleep duration from infancy to childhood and its prospective association with chronic depression symptoms

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