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Not later, but longer: sleep, chronotype and light exposure in adolescents with remitted depression compared to healthy controls

Authors: Lena Katharina Keller, Barbara Grünewald, Céline Vetter, Till Roenneberg, Gerd Schulte-Körne

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 10/2017

Abstract

The relationship between sleep and adolescent depression is much discussed, but still not fully understood. One important sleep variable is self-selected sleep timing, which is also referred to as chronotype. Chronotype is mostly regulated by the circadian clock that synchronises the internal time of the body with the external light dark cycle. A late chronotype as well as a misalignment between internal time and external time such as social jetlag has been shown to be associated with depressive symptoms in adults. In this study, we investigated whether adolescents with remitted depression differ from healthy controls in terms of chronotype, social jetlag and other sleep-related variables. For this purpose, we assessed chronotype and social jetlag with the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ), subjective sleep quality with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and used continuous wrist-actimetry over 31 consecutive days to determine objective sleep timing. Given the potentially mediating effect of light on chronotype and depressive symptoms, we measured light exposure with a light sensor on the actimeter. In our sample, adolescents with remitted depression showed similar chronotypes and similar amounts of social jetlag compared to controls. However, patients with remitted depression slept significantly longer on work-free days and reported a worse subjective sleep quality than controls. Additionally, light exposure in remitted patients was significantly higher, but this finding was mediated by living in a rural environment. These findings indicate that chronotype might be modified during remission, which should be further investigated in longitudinal studies.

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Title: Not later, but longer: sleep, chronotype and light exposure in adolescents with remitted depression compared to healthy controls
Authors: Lena Katharina Keller
Barbara Grünewald
Céline Vetter
Till Roenneberg
Gerd Schulte-Körne
Publication date: 01-10-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 10/2017
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-0977-z

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Not later, but longer: sleep, chronotype and light exposure in adolescents with remitted depression compared to healthy controls

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