ArticleJournal of adolescence2021
Can measures of sleep quality or white matter structural integrity predict level of worry or rumination in adolescents facing stressful situations? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Neuroimaging insights into the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Subjective sleep alterations in healthy subjects worldwide during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression.Sleep medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Demyelination and Cognitive Performance in Long COVID Patients with Insomnia and/or Depression.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- A short-interval longitudinal study of associations between psychological distress and hippocampal grey matter in early adolescence.Brain imaging and behavior · 2024Article
- Rumination as a Mechanism of the Longitudinal Association Between COVID-19-Related Stress and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescents.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Pre-pandemic brain structure and function and adolescent psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic.Current opinion in psychology · 2023Review
- Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Epidemiology, Mechanism, and Treatment.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Review
- Cross-cultural validation of the Worries about COVID-19 and its consequences Scale (W-COV) in adolescents and young people.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2022Article
- Growing up during a public health crisis: a qualitative study of Born in Bradford early adolescents during Covid-19.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Irrational Consumption during the COVID-19 Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The COVID-19 Lockdown and Mental Wellbeing of Females in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Mental Health and Wellbeing in Young People in the UK during Lockdown (COVID-19).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Sleep Profiles Among Ethnically-Racially Minoritized Adolescents: Associations with Sociocultural Experiences and Developmental Outcomes.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
introductionCOVID-19 has resulted in major life changes to the majority of the world population, particularly adolescents, with social-distancing measures such as home-based schooling likely to impact sleep quality. Increased worry is also likely considering the substantial financial, educational and health concerns accompanying COVID-19. White matter (WM) integrity has been shown to be associated with anxiety and depression symptoms, including worry, as well being closely associated with sleep quality. This study aimed to investigate the associations between pre-COVID sleep quality, WM structural integrity and levels of worry and rumination about COVID.
methodsN = 30 adolescent participants from Queensland, Australia, completed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) scanning pre-COVID, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) pre and during COVID, and 9 items designed to measure 3 constructs, perceived impact of COVID, general worry, and COVID-specific worry and rumination.
resultsSleep quality (PSQI total) was significantly poorer during COVID compared with pre-COVID. Sleep onset latency measured pre-COVID was significantly associated with COVID-specific worry and rumination. While the structural integrity of a number of WM tracts (measured pre-COVID) were found to be significantly associated with COVID-specific worry and rumination. Follow-up regression analysis using a model including pre-COVID sleep onset latency, structural integrity of the posterior limb of the internal capsule (PLIC), gender and change in PSQI explained a significant 47% of the variance in COVID-specific worry and rumination.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that adolescents with poor sleep quality and perturbed WM integrity may be at risk of heightened reactivity to future stressful events and interventions should focus on improving sleep onset latency.
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