Subjective but Not Objective Sleep is Associated with Subsyndromal Anxiety and Depression in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Clarifying the role of sleep in psychiatric symptoms is crucial to understanding the etiology of late-life affective disorders. Examinations of the relationship of sleep disturbance to subclinical levels of depression and anxiety may provide important clues about the pathophysiology underlying the dimensions of mood and anxiety. To date, only a few studies have conducted comprehensive assessment of objective sleep in older adults with subclinical affective symptoms rather than major clinical diagnoses of depression and anxiety, with most studies using subjective self-reports of sleep disturbance and daytime sleepiness.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research