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Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
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Abstract
The extent to which sleep is causally related to mental health is unclear. One way to test the causal link is to evaluate the extent to which interventions that improve sleep quality also improve mental health. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials that reported the effects of an intervention that improved sleep on composite mental health, as well as on seven specific mental health difficulties. 65 trials comprising 72 interventions and N = 8608 participants were included. Improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = -0.53), depression (g+ = -0.63), anxiety (g+ = -0.51), and rumination (g+ = -0.49), as well as significant small-to-medium sized effects on stress (g+ = -0.42), and finally small significant effects on positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = -0.26). We also found a dose response relationship, in that greater improvements in sleep quality led to greater improvements in mental health. Our findings suggest that sleep is causally related to the experience of mental health difficulties. Future research might consider how interventions that improve sleep could be incorporated into mental health services, as well as the mechanisms of action that explain how sleep exerts an effect on mental health.
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This meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials found that interventions which successfully improved sleep quality produced significant improvements in subsequent mental health, with a medium-sized effect on composite mental health. The findings support a causal role for sleep in mental health difficulties and suggest sleep as a transdiagnostic treatment target.
Key findings
- Across 65 trials, 72 interventions, and N = 8608 participants, improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = −0.53, 95% CI −0.68 to −0.38), depression (g+ = −0.63), anxiety (g+ = −0.51), and rumination (g+ = −0.49), plus smaller effects on stress (g+ = −0.42) and positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = −0.26).
- A dose–response relationship was found: greater improvements in sleep quality were associated with greater improvements in mental health (B = 0.77, 95% CI 0.52 to 1.02, p < 0.001).
- Studies with a significant effect on sleep quality showed larger mental health effects (g = −0.53) than those without (g = −0.12; Q = 17.59, p < 0.001); effects were larger at shorter follow-up (<6 months, g+ = −0.60) than longer follow-up (≥6 months, g+ = −0.18; Q = 10.75, p < 0.01), and larger for clinician-delivered (g+ = −0.63) than self-administered interventions (g+ = −0.34; Q = 4.50, p < 0.05).
- Publication bias was indicated by funnel plot asymmetry (Egger’s regression = −1.09, p < 0.05); trim-and-fill adjustment reduced the composite effect to g+ = −0.35, and Orwin’s fail-safe n was 4101.
Methods
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs that tested an intervention designed to improve sleep, produced a statistically significant improvement in sleep quality versus control, and measured mental health at a later follow-up; studies were excluded if the intervention specifically targeted mental health or recruited participants under 18 years.
- Searches covered MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and The Cochrane Library, plus reference lists and trial registries, originally in May 2019 and updated in February 2021; PRISMA selection yielded 65 studies and 72 comparisons.
- Random-effects meta-analysis in R used Hedges g, I² for heterogeneity, moderation/subgroup analyses and meta-regression, Cochrane risk-of-bias assessment, and publication-bias checks including funnel plot, Egger’s test, trim-and-fill, and Orwin’s fail-safe n.
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- The paper states that relatively few studies examined long-term effects, and longer follow-ups generally showed smaller effects, likely due to diminishing intervention effects on sleep quality over time.
- The paper states that few primary studies existed for outcomes other than depression and anxiety, limiting inferences for other mental health difficulties, and that most analyses were based on CBT for insomnia; the focus on sleep quality may also have excluded studies of sleep disorders with different improvement definitions.
- Evident from the text: most included studies were at high (29, 45%) or unclear (26, 40%) risk of bias, with only 10 (15%) at low risk; main analyses showed substantial heterogeneity (I² = 76–82% for composite, depression, and anxiety), and publication bias was present, with trim-and-fill reducing the composite effect.
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“Improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = −0.53), depression (g+ = −0.63), anxiety (g+ = −0.51), and rumination (g+ = −0.49), as well as significant small-to-medium sized effects on stress (g+ = −0.42), and finally small significant effects on positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = −0.26).”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Abstract
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“65 trials comprising 72 interventions and N = 8608 participants were included.”
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“The 65 studies provided 72 comparisons between an intervention that successfully improved sleep quality vs. a control group.”
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“A total of N = 8608 participants took part across the 72 interventions.”
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“and now relatively homogeneous (I2 = 20%, Q = 75.24, p = 0.0888).”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > What effect do improvements in sleep quality have on mental health?
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“Improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = −0.53), depression (g+ = −0.63), anxiety (g+ = −0.51), and rumination (g+ = −0.49), as well as significant small-to-medium sized effects on stress (g+ = −0.42), and finally small significant effects on positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = −0.26).”
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“Improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = −0.53), depression (g+ = −0.63), anxiety (g+ = −0.51), and rumination (g+ = −0.49), as well as significant small-to-medium sized effects on stress (g+ = −0.42), and finally small significant effects on positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = −0.26).”
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“The interventions had large and statistically significant effects on sleep quality at the earliest follow-up point reported (g+ = −1.07, 95% CI = −1.26 to −0.88, p < 0.001)”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > Manipulation check: did sleep quality improve significantly in the intervention group relative to controls?
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“and heterogeneity was reduced to moderate levels (I2 = 43%, Q = 102.32, p < 0.001).”
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“Improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = −0.53), depression (g+ = −0.63), anxiety (g+ = −0.51), and rumination (g+ = −0.49), as well as significant small-to-medium sized effects on stress (g+ = −0.42), and finally small significant effects on positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = −0.26).”
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“however, there was substantial heterogeneity between the effect sizes, (I2 = 76%, Q = 291.94, p < 0.001).”
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“Improving sleep led to a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health (g+ = −0.53), depression (g+ = −0.63), anxiety (g+ = −0.51), and rumination (g+ = −0.49), as well as significant small-to-medium sized effects on stress (g+ = −0.42), and finally small significant effects on positive psychosis symptoms (g+ = −0.26).”
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“We also found a dose response relationship, in that greater improvements in sleep quality led to greater improvements in mental health.”
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“After re-running the analysis with eleven outlying effect sizes removed, the effect of improving sleep on composite mental health outcomes was small-to-medium sized but still statistically significant, (g+ = −0.42, 95% CI = −0.49 to −0.34, p < 0.001)”
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“Studies that found significant effects of the intervention on sleep quality reported larger effects on subsequent composite mental health, (g = −0.53, 95% CI = −0.68 to −0.38, p < 0.001), than studies that did not find a significant effect of the intervention on sleep quality, (g = −0.12, 95% CI = −0.24 to 0.01, p = 0.0522)”
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“a difference that was statistically significant, (Q = 17.59, p < 0.001).”
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“we found no difference in the effect of improving sleep quality on mental health between those with clinically defined mental health difficulties and those with non-clinical experiences or between those recruited from clinical vs. community settings, with both groups receiving significant benefits of improved sleep on mental health.”
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“Studies reporting the effect of the intervention at shorter follow-ups reported larger improvements in sleep quality, (g = −1.03, 95% CI = −1.27 to −0.78, p < 0.001), than those reporting longer follow-ups (g = −0.44, 95% CI = −0.62 to −0.27, p < 0.001), a difference that was statistically significant, (Q = 14.38, p < 0.001).”
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“There were moderate levels of heterogeneity (I2 = 55%, Q = 11.05, p = 0.05), but there were no outlying effect sizes.”
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“Ten studies were imputed resulting in a statistically significant, small-to-medium sized adjusted effect of improving sleep on composite mental health outcomes (g+ = −0.35, 95% CI = −0.55 to −0.16, p < 0.001).”
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“The effect of improving sleep quality on composite mental health was medium-sized and statistically significant, regardless of the presence of physical and/or mental health comorbidities.”
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“There were low levels of heterogeneity (I2 = 20%, Q = 1.25, p = 0.263) and no outlying effect sizes.”
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“Ten studies (15%) were judged as having low risk of bias, 29 studies (45%) were judged as high risk of bias, and 26 studies (40%) were judged as unclear.”
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“most of the analyses are based on CBT interventions for insomnia.”
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“Finally, to date there has been no or limited attempts to investigate variables that influence – or moderate – the impact of interventions that improve sleep on mental health.”
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“such that poor sleep contributes to the onset, recurrence, and maintenance of mental health difficulties [[13]∗, [14], [15]∗, [16], [17]].”
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- Not checked yetcites [[13]∗, [14], [15]∗, [16], [17]]
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“2) effects are limited to the short-term where they are likely to be strongest.”
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“1) there is no temporal lag between the measurement of sleep and measurement of mental health (a key tenet of causal inference);”
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“For example, poor sleep has also been associated with post-traumatic stress [25], eating disorders [26], and psychosis spectrum experiences such as delusions and hallucinations [23,27].”
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- Not checked yetcites [25] Harvey, 2003, Sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder: a review, Clin Psychol Rev source
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“The association between sleep and mental health is well documented [9,13,[18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23]∗].”
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- Not checked yetcites [9,13,[18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23]∗]
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“Risk of bias was assessed using the risk of bias assessment criteria developed by the Cochrane Collaboration [60].”
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- Not checked yetcites [60] Higgins, 2011, Chapter 8: assessing risk of bias in included studies
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“Publication bias was assessed via visual inspection of a funnel plot and Egger's test [70].”
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- Not checked yetcites [70] Egger, 1997, Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test, BMJ source
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“Studies have also found that specific sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea [28], circadian rhythm disruption [29], restless leg syndrome [30], excessive daytime sleepiness and narcolepsy [31,32], sleepwalking [33], and nightmares [34] are all more prevalent in those experiencing mental health difficulties.”
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- Not checked yetcites [28] Sharafkhaneh, 2005, Association of psychiatric disorders and sleep apnea in a large cohort, Sleep source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Wulff, 2010, Sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease, Nat Rev Neurosci source
- Not checked yetcites [30] Picchietti, 2005, Restless legs syndrome, periodic limb movements in sleep, and depression, Sleep
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“For example, poor sleep has also been associated with post-traumatic stress [25], eating disorders [26], and psychosis spectrum experiences such as delusions and hallucinations [23,27].”
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Lauer, 2004, Sleep in eating disorders, Sleep Med Rev source
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“We followed PRISMA guidelines [53] when selecting studies.”
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- Not checked yetcites [53] Moher, 2009, Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement, BMJ source
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“Records were screened by two members of the review team, and a sub-sample of 10% of each reviewer's records were second checked by the other reviewer, with almost perfect agreement between the reviewers (kappa = 1.00 and 0.99).”
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“Additionally, Orwin's formula [71] was used to determine the fail-safe n.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Method > Outcomes and prioritization
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Orwin, 1983, A fail-safe N for effect size in meta-analysis, J Educ Stat
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“Third, the focus of previous reviews has been limited to depression and anxiety only, and typically limited to CBTi interventions.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Does improving sleep lead to better mental health? A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Evidence on the relationship between sleep and mental health
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“We conducted a sensitivity analysis examining the effect of outliers for each outcome by rerunning the analysis with any outlying effect sizes removed.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Method > Outcomes and prioritization
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“To our knowledge, the review is the first to adopt this approach in the field of sleep and mental health”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“the review was specifically designed to test the causal association between sleep and mental health (i.e., RCTs only, successful sleep improvement required, temporal lag between measures etc.).”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“Taken together, the findings suggest that improving sleep leads to better mental health, therefore providing strong evidence that sleep plays a causal role in the experience of mental health difficulties.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion
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“therefore improving sleep might be one tool that can be used in combination with others to limit the risk of transition.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Sleep as a transdiagnostic treatment target
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“we provide an analysis of possible moderators of the effect of improving sleep on mental health, identifying several key moderators of the effect.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“it provides a comprehensive and up-to-date search of RCTs examining the effect of improving sleep on a variety of subsequent mental health outcomes.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“the timing of sleep is particularly important in circadian rhythm disorders and daytime sleepiness is a key outcome in sleep apnoea research.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“it may be that our focus on sleep quality precluded some studies that do not focus on insomnia from inclusion.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“different sleep disorders have different conceptualisations of improvement that might not include sleep quality.”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“Those that did report longer follow-ups generally found smaller effects (although still statistically significant), most likely due to the diminishing effects of interventions on sleep quality over time [91].”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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- Not checked yetcites [91] van der Zweerde, 2019, Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia: a meta-analysis of long-term effects in controlled studies, Sleep Med Rev source
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The interventions that successfully improved sleep quality did not improve mental health through mechanisms other than improved sleep.
“To better isolate the effect of improved sleep on mental health, we excluded interventions that included specific elements targeting mental health (e.g., CBT elements for depression).”
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“This is aligned with evidence showing that improvements in all lifestyle domains that we targeted is associated with improvements in the QOL mental component summary measure [5, 6, 70, 81, 82].”
From Personalized machine learning guided intervention for optimizing lifestyle behaviors in depression: a pilot study (2026) · cites this paper as [82]
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“This finding aligns with the strong foundation in the literature that improvements in sleep, diet and exercise are linked to improvements in depression symptoms [82, 99, 100].”
From Personalized machine learning guided intervention for optimizing lifestyle behaviors in depression: a pilot study (2026) · cites this paper as [82]
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“Rather than suppressing distressing cognitions, ACT promotes acceptance and value-consistent action, thereby reducing the struggle that sustains insomnia-related arousal [78].”
From Pre-Sleep Anxiety: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches in Clinical Practice. (2026) · cites this paper as [78]
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“ACT extends the principles of mindfulness by emphasizing psychological flexibility -one's capacity to tolerate aversive internal experiences, such as anxiety or wakefulness, without engaging in maladaptive control efforts [78].”
From Pre-Sleep Anxiety: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches in Clinical Practice. (2026) · cites this paper as [78]
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“A recent meta-analysis concluded that sleep improvement after different non-pharmacological treatments for insomnia is causally related to improvements in mental health [19].”
From Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in patients with mental disorders and comorbid insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022) · cites this paper as [19]
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§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > Study characteristics
“sleep restriction alone (2, 3%)”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > Moderators of the effect of improving sleep quality on composite mental health outcomes
“| Intervention type | Sleep restriction onlyc | 1 | – | – | |”
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§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > Moderators of the effect of improving sleep quality on composite mental health outcomes
“a difference that was statistically significant, (Q = 17.59, p < 0.001)”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > Moderators of the effect of improving sleep quality on composite mental health outcomes
“| Significant effect on sleepa | Yes | 72 | −0.53 | −0.69 to −0.38 | 17.69∗∗∗ |”
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§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > What effect do improvements in sleep quality have on mental health?
“| Anxiety | −0.51∗∗∗ | −0.77 to −0.24 | 82% | 186.92∗∗∗ | 35 | 5819 |”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > What effect do improvements in sleep quality have on mental health?
“(g+ = −0.50, 95% CI = −0.76 to −0.24, p < 0.001), with substantial levels of heterogeneity, (I2 = 82%, Q = 187.02, p < 0.001)”
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§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > Study characteristics
“33 (46%) reported a measure of anxiety”
§ Improving sleep quality leads to better mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials > Results > What effect do improvements in sleep quality have on mental health?
“| Anxiety | −0.51∗∗∗ | −0.77 to −0.24 | 82% | 186.92∗∗∗ | 35 | 5819 |”
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“Good sleep is also important for mental health and the prevention of mental disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety) and emotional distress [12].”
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“Sleep is the most important activity in life and has a significant impact on human physical health and mental health (Scott et al. 2021).”
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“Adolescence, is already a developmental period often characterised by sleep disturbances due to pervasive social changes, such as less parental control, more access to stimulating social activities and alcohol and substance use (Scott et al., 2022).”
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“These fi ndings are unsurprising as it has been established that good sleep quality is a protective factor against mental health conditions ( Scott et al., 2021 ).”
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“(2021), it was found that interventions oriented to improve sleep quality lead to a significant effect on diminishing depression symptoms, anxiety and rumination (Scott et al., 2021).”
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“20 Moreover, sleep quality is associated with LS. 21 The proportion of older adults with sleep problems is approximately 40 – 45%, and for young and middle-aged adults it is 20 – 30%.”
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Exercise, Sleep Quality, and Physical Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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“31 Sleep disturbances and suicide ideation are also strongly linked, 32 and insomnia adversely affects a number of health-related quality of life domains.”
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“However, despite the strong association between sleep and mental health (Biddle et al. 2019; Freeman et al. 2017; Harvey et al. 2011; Scott 2021), there is a significant gap in the literature on sleep health education interventions among social workers.”
Risk Factors for Post-Stroke Depression Following the Lifting of COVID-19 Restrictions
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Sexual assault predicts gender-specific sleep problems in varsity student athletes
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Depression and Suicide in the “World’s Happiest Countries”
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Sleep quality vs. mental health: A complex relationship with psychosis
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“In a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Scott et al. found that better sleep had a significant medium-sized effect on composite mental health, depression, anxiety, and rumination [55].”
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Sleep Quality and Mental Health in Volunteer Firefighters
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“…therapy for insomnia [CBT-I]) can improve not only sleep quality but also nonsleep outcomes, such as mental health outcomes, comorbid symptoms in medical conditions, and quality of life; 47,48 however, there is comparatively less research on the effects on physical functioning and disability.”
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“Sleep quality (SQ) has been identified as a primary issue affecting the mental health of contemporary secondary school students and a particular symptom of premature anxiety manifested by social adaptation (Scott et al., 2021).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scott, A. J., Webb, T. L., Martyn-St James, M., Rowse, G., & Weich, S.
- Affiliations
- Keele University (GB)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Scott, Alexander J.
- Venue
- Sleep Medicine Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-12
- Volume
- 60
- Pages
- 101556
- ISSN
- 1087-0792 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8651630
- OpenAlex
- W3203364067
- Cited by
- 1,094
- References
- 194
- Citations by year
- 2026: 226 · 2025: 349 · 2024: 275 · 2023: 190 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 3
- FWCI
- 21.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sleep Medicine Reviews (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Keele Research Repository (Keele University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Research for Patient Benefit Programme (PB-PG- 0817-20027)
- National Institute for Health Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- sleep quality, mental health, sleep interventions, depression, anxiety, rumination, stress, psychotic symptoms, dose-response relationship
- MeSH terms
- Sleep Quality, Anxiety, Humans, Mental Health, Psychotic Disorders, Sleep, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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