Depression and Anxiety Mediate the Association between Sleep Quality and Self-Rated Health in Healthcare Students

• Published in: Behavioral sciences Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 82
• Main Authors: Zhu, Yihong, Jiang, Chen, Yang, You, Dzierzewski, Joseph M., Spruyt, Karen, Zhang, Bingren, Huang, Mengyi, Ge, Hanjie, Rong, Yangyang, Ola, Bolanle Adeyemi, Liu, Tingjie, Ma, Haiyan, Meng, Runtang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 19.01.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; Analysis; Anxiety; Cardiovascular disease; College students; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Data collection; depression; Diabetes; Employment; Health surveys; healthcare students; Life Sciences; Likert scale; mediation; Mental depression; Mental health; Missing data; Part time employment; Preventive medicine; Psychological aspects; Questionnaires; Schizophrenia; self-rated health; Sleep; Sleep disorders; sleep quality; Software; Statistical analysis; Stress; Students; Type 2 diabetes; Validity; Variance analysis; China; anxiety; depression; mediation; healthcare students; sleep quality; self-rated health; Sleep quality; Depression; Healthcare students; Anxiety; Self-rated health; Mediation

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate factors associated with sleep quality in healthcare students and to determine whether depressive and anxiety symptoms may explain some of the associations between sleep quality and self-rated health. Study design: This is a cross-sectional study at wave on...