Clinical ReviewReciprocal relationships between daily sleep and mood: A systematic review of naturalistic prospective studies
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Method
The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines were used to identify studies to include in the review.
Summary of included studies
Twenty-nine studies published between 1994 and 2017 were included in the systematic review. Sample sizes ranged between 19 and 761, with a total of 5422 participants and a mean of 187. Eight studies investigated samples of children and adolescents ∗[20], [21], [22], ∗[23], ∗[24], [25], [26], [27], one study examined older adult samples [28], and the remaining studied adult samples. The majority of included studies investigated healthy populations, with the exception of three studies ∗[20], [29]
Discussion
A growing body of literature suggests a link between sleep and affective states. The current review expands on previous findings by attending to data from multi-day naturalistic studies, and lends support to the generally accepted notion that disturbed sleep leads to mood disturbance, and vice versa. As represented in Fig. 2, neither ‘sleep’ nor ‘affect’ can be conceptualised as unitary phenomena, and multiple relationships between the two have been observed.
Conflicts of interest
The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
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