ArticlePsychosomatic medicine
The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Poor Sleep Health in Adulthood.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The mediating role of maladaptive perfectionism in the relationship between childhood trauma and depression.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of childhood emotional maltreatment on adolescent insomnia: a chained mediation model.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Reconstructing Psychopathology: A Data-Driven Reorganization of the Symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
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- Annual risk of long-term sickness absence due to musculoskeletal disorders across the lifespan and the role of physical activity and insomnia symptoms: the HUNT Study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Sleep duration in adolescence buffers the impact of childhood trauma on anxiety and depressive symptoms.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Subtypes of childhood maltreatment and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in an adult trauma sample: The mechanistic role of sleep.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- Trajectories of Nonrestorative Sleep in First-year College Students: The Roles of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Resilience.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
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- Conceptualizing Sleep Satisfaction: A Rapid Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Factors associated with sleep quality among Afghan healthcare workers.Health science reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveChildhood trauma has been related to adverse behavioral, mental, and health outcomes later in life. Sleep may be a potential mechanism through which childhood trauma is related to adverse health. The current retrospective study aimed to characterize the relationship between childhood trauma exposure and sleep health, a novel multidimensional measure of sleep.
methodsParticipants (N = 161; mean [standard deviation] age = 59.85 [9.06] years; 67.7% female) retrospectively reported trauma exposure using the Trauma History Questionnaire. Childhood trauma was defined as the number of reported traumatic events before 18 years of age. Trauma exposure after 18 years of age and across the life-span was also recorded. Sleep health was derived both from diary- and actigraphy-assessed measures of sleep regularity, timing, efficiency, and duration, subjective sleep satisfaction, and daytime sleepiness from the Epworth Sleepiness Scale. The relationships between childhood trauma exposure and sleep health were examined using hierarchical linear regression, controlling for relevant covariates.
resultsIn unadjusted models, a greater number of childhood trauma exposures were associated with poorer diary- and actigraphy-measured sleep health in adulthood. After adjustment for current stress, depression history, and other sociodemographic covariates, greater childhood trauma remained significantly associated with poorer sleep health (diary: β = -0.20, ΔR = 0.032; actigraphy: β = -0.19, ΔR = 0.027). Trauma exposure after 18 years of age and across the life-span did not relate to diary- or actigraphy-based sleep health.
conclusionsChildhood trauma may affect sleep health in adulthood. These findings align with the growing body of evidence linking childhood trauma to adverse health outcomes later in life.
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