Sleeping Well Improves Quality Of Life, Decreases Depression

Sleeping Well Improves Quality Of Life, Decreases Depression

Getting six to nine hours of repose per night is associated with higher ratings with a view to quality of life and lower ratings despite depression, suggests a research abstract that choose be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS).

Results display that people with a "normal" sleep duration of six to nine hours through night had higher self-reported scores according to quality of life and lower scores despite depression severity compared to short and long sleepers. These differences were statistically important in all comparisons. Among patients who reported having make ~ health, there were a higher percentage of natural sleepers, who also had significantly decrease scores for depression severity compared to suddenly and long sleepers with perfect soundness.

"These results are important because they make provision more information about the importance of getting enough sleep, which is usually six to nine hours by night," said principal investigator Dr. Charles Bae, neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center in Ohio. "People may already expect that their quality of life could exist decreased when they do not ~ by heart enough sleep, but they may not accomplish that sleeping too much can furthermore have a negative impact."

Bae and colleagues analyzed facts from 10,654 patient records, that were collected from January 2008 to May 2010. Study subjects had a low-minded age of about 52 years. Quality of life was assessed using the EQ-5D questionnaire, a standardized metre of health outcome. The nine-article Patient Health Questionnaire was used as a screening tool for depression. Generalized estimating equations were used to reference to grounds for multiple visits per patient, and a multi-variable logistic regression model adjusted for demographic differences of the like kind as age, gender, race and marital status. Short sleep was defined at the same time that less than six hours per death, and long sleep was classified taken in the character of more than nine hours per death.

"It was surprising to see that inactive less than six hours and greater degree than nine hours is associated by a similar decrease in quality of life and be augmented in depressive symptoms," said Bae. "I speculation that there would be changes in temper of life and degree of depressive symptoms for short and long sleepers, but did not wait for that those changes would be uniform in both groups."

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine reports that individual slumber needs vary. However, most adults distress about seven to eight hours of nightly sleep to feel alert and well rested during the day.