![]() In the United States, college students are at high risk for psychological problems. As a distinct period of development straddling the adolescent and young adulthood life stages, the college years are a peak period for onset of many common mental health problems such as depression are especially prominent. The results speak to a need for college student with depression symptoms to identify and address sleep problems when present, which could prevent or reduce depression detriments in later life.ĭepression affects about 300 million people worldwide and has become a global public health burden. Our findings indicate that the better healthy sleep patterns may significantly decrease the risk of increasing trajectory of depression symptoms only in male college students. Moreover, we found out that the healthy sleep patterns of college students can predict the future depressive symptoms in this study (all P < 0.001). ![]() The healthy sleep patterns were associated with these trajectories, the better healthy sleep patterns significantly decrease the risk of increasing trajectories of depression symptoms in males (OR: 0.72, 95%CI: 0.54 ~ 0.97, P = 0.031). Then, we used 5 surveys’ data to identify 2 distinct trajectories of depression symptoms during college (decreasing: 82.5% increasing: 17.5%). In baseline survey, we found that a total of 100 (10.0%) participants had healthy sleep patterns’ score equal to 5. Then binary logistic regression was used to examine association of the healthy sleep patterns with these trajectories. ![]() Latent growth curve model was used to identify trajectories of depression symptoms. ![]() Healthy sleep patterns were defined by chronotype, sleep duration, insomnia, snoring, and daytime sleepiness. MethodsĪ total of 999 participants from the College Student Behavior and Health Cohort Study were included between April 2019 and June 2021. The purpose of this study was to identify different develpment trajectories of depression symptoms during college period, and prospectively investigate the associations healthy sleep patterns with trajectories of depression symptoms among college students from freshman through junior year.
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