Healthy sleep behaviors may reduce the impact of genetic predisposition and lifestyle factors on the risk for mental disorders, according to results of a cohort study published in Psychiatry Research.
“Many previous studies focused on one or two sleep behaviors, ignoring the possible interaction among different sleep behaviors,” Chuyu Pan, of the School of Public Health at Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, and colleagues wrote. “Although relationship between sleep quality index consisting of several sleep behaviors and [mental disorders] has been explored, no cohort