Trial reportPsychological medicine2026
Sleep diary-derived parameters and sleep measures mediate the efficacy of transdiagnostic sleep and circadian intervention for depression.
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The present study aimed to explore sleep diary-derived parameters and sleep measures as mediators of the effects of the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TSC) on psychological outcomes. A secondary analysis of a two-arm randomized controlled trial of a group-based TSC for major depressive disorder was conducted. The participants included 152 adults (mean age = 34.0; 79.6% female) who were randomized into either the TSC or care-as-usual group. Mediation analysis indicated that reduction in insomnia symptom severity (standardized indirect effects: -0.06 to -0.17), sleep disturbance (-0.04 to -0.22), and sleep-related impairment (-0.04 to -0.17) was significantly mediated by sleep diary-derived sleep parameters. The treatment effects on depressive symptoms (standardized indirect effects: -0.05 to -0.10), anxiety symptoms (-0.04 to -0.07), fatigue (-0.05 to -0.09), functional impairment (-0.06 to -0.09), and quality of life (0.04 to 0.08) were sequentially mediated by sleep parameters and insomnia symptom severity. However, the severity of insomnia symptoms alone (magnitudes of standardized indirect effects: 0.09-0.17) but not sleep parameters alone (0.00-0.07) mediated the treatment effects on psychological outcomes, indicating that sleep parameters need to influence subjective sleep measures to sequentially affect psychological outcomes. These results underscore the critical roles of subjective sleep measures in clinical improvements within a sleep-targeted intervention.
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