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Adolescent sleep, risk behaviors, and depressive symptoms: are they linked?
Keryn E Pasch1, Melissa N Laska, Leslie A Lytle
1Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0360, USA. kpasch@mail.utexas.edu
Objective:
To explore how weekday and weekend sleep patterns are related to adolescent substance use, depressive symptoms, and school truancy.
Methods:
Selfreport surveys of 242 youth (93.4% white, mean age 16.4 years).
Results:
Longer weekday sleep duration was inversely associated with depressive symptoms, past month alcohol use, and drunkenness. Later weekend bedtime and wake-times, compared to those of weekdays, were associated with increased substance use and truancy.
Conclusions:
Weekday sleep duration appears to be protective for substance use, depression and school truancy for teenagers. However, inconsistent sleep patterns between weekdays and weekends were associated with a range of markers for adolescent risk.
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