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The Epidemiology of Depressive Symptoms and Poor Sleep: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

Poole, L; Jackowska, M; (2017) The Epidemiology of Depressive Symptoms and Poor Sleep: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 10.1007/s12529-017-9703-y. Green open access

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Abstract

PURPOSE: The reasons for the comorbidity between depressed mood and poor sleep are not well understood. METHOD: Participants were 5172 adults aged 50 years and older from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Sleep was measured via self-report and depressive symptoms using the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale. RESULTS: Greater depressive symptoms and sleep complaints were associated with female sex, non-cohabitation, relative poverty, smoking, infrequent physical activity, infrequent alcohol consumption, higher body mass index (BMI), diagnosis of hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes/high blood glucose, pulmonary disease, arthritis, and higher levels of fibrinogen and C-reactive protein (all p < 0.05). At a 4-year follow-up, depressive symptoms and sleep complaints were both predicted by baseline depressive symptoms and sleep complaints, relative poverty, smoking, physical inactivity, BMI, and arthritis (all p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Depressive symptoms and sleep complaints share a range of correlates cross-sectionally and prospectively. These findings highlight the common comorbidity between depressive symptoms and sleep complaints underscoring the need for further research to understand their combined detrimental effect on long-term health and wellbeing.

Type: Article
Title: The Epidemiology of Depressive Symptoms and Poor Sleep: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s12529-017-9703-y
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-017-9703-y
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: C-reactive protein, Depressive symptoms, Fibrinogen, Health behaviour, Physical illness, Sleep complaints
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040508
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