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Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents
Among adolescents, mental health issues (i.e., stress and depressive symptoms) negatively affect sleep. We assessed whether the association between mental health and sleep varied between genders among Saudi adolescents. A total of 2206 school students (grades 7-12) from 40 randomly selected schools...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8448587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5513817 |
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author | Rajab, Ahmad Mamoun Rajab, Tawfik Mamoun Basha, Amjad Chamsi Al-Khani, Abdullah Murhaf Ali, Mohamed Abdelghafour Enabi, Saed Zaghloul, Mohamed Saddik Almazrou, Abdulrahman Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus |
author_facet | Rajab, Ahmad Mamoun Rajab, Tawfik Mamoun Basha, Amjad Chamsi Al-Khani, Abdullah Murhaf Ali, Mohamed Abdelghafour Enabi, Saed Zaghloul, Mohamed Saddik Almazrou, Abdulrahman Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus |
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description | Among adolescents, mental health issues (i.e., stress and depressive symptoms) negatively affect sleep. We assessed whether the association between mental health and sleep varied between genders among Saudi adolescents. A total of 2206 school students (grades 7-12) from 40 randomly selected schools in four cities of Al-Qassim province in Saudi Arabia participated in this cross-sectional study. The survey assessed demography, lifestyle, sleep (12-item Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale), depression (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21)) and stress (10-item Perceived Stress Scale). Adjusted associations with sleep were tested with linear and logistic regressions. Of the sample, 55% were girls, and their average sleep score was lower than that of the boys (58.7 vs. 63.4, p < 0.001). Girls had worse mental health than boys; the proportion of girls with both severe stress and severe depressive symptoms was three times higher than that of the boys (12% vs. 4%, p < 0.001). For both boys and girls, those with severe depressive symptoms only or both severe depressive symptoms and severe stress had significantly lower sleep scores than those who had neither of the two conditions (reference group). On the other hand, among those who had severe stress only, the sleep score was significantly lower for the girls (p = 0.002) than for the boys (p = 0.19). Overall, girls had a significantly lower sleep score and worse mental health than boys. The association between mental health and sleep significantly differed between the sexes. Severe stress was negatively associated with sleep in girls but not in boys. |
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spelling | pubmed-84485872021-09-18 Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents Rajab, Ahmad Mamoun Rajab, Tawfik Mamoun Basha, Amjad Chamsi Al-Khani, Abdullah Murhaf Ali, Mohamed Abdelghafour Enabi, Saed Zaghloul, Mohamed Saddik Almazrou, Abdulrahman Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Sleep Disord Research Article Among adolescents, mental health issues (i.e., stress and depressive symptoms) negatively affect sleep. We assessed whether the association between mental health and sleep varied between genders among Saudi adolescents. A total of 2206 school students (grades 7-12) from 40 randomly selected schools in four cities of Al-Qassim province in Saudi Arabia participated in this cross-sectional study. The survey assessed demography, lifestyle, sleep (12-item Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale), depression (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21)) and stress (10-item Perceived Stress Scale). Adjusted associations with sleep were tested with linear and logistic regressions. Of the sample, 55% were girls, and their average sleep score was lower than that of the boys (58.7 vs. 63.4, p < 0.001). Girls had worse mental health than boys; the proportion of girls with both severe stress and severe depressive symptoms was three times higher than that of the boys (12% vs. 4%, p < 0.001). For both boys and girls, those with severe depressive symptoms only or both severe depressive symptoms and severe stress had significantly lower sleep scores than those who had neither of the two conditions (reference group). On the other hand, among those who had severe stress only, the sleep score was significantly lower for the girls (p = 0.002) than for the boys (p = 0.19). Overall, girls had a significantly lower sleep score and worse mental health than boys. The association between mental health and sleep significantly differed between the sexes. Severe stress was negatively associated with sleep in girls but not in boys. Hindawi 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8448587/ /pubmed/34540293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5513817 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ahmad Mamoun Rajab et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rajab, Ahmad Mamoun Rajab, Tawfik Mamoun Basha, Amjad Chamsi Al-Khani, Abdullah Murhaf Ali, Mohamed Abdelghafour Enabi, Saed Zaghloul, Mohamed Saddik Almazrou, Abdulrahman Saquib, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents |
title | Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents |
title_full | Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents |
title_fullStr | Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents |
title_short | Gender Differences in Sleep and Mental Health among Saudi Adolescents |
title_sort | gender differences in sleep and mental health among saudi adolescents |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8448587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5513817 |
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