Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001269
Roland von Känel, Mary Princip, Sarah A Holzgang, Alexia Rossi, Andreas A Giannopoulos, Ronny R Buechel, Claudia Zuccarella-Hackl, Aju P Pazhenkottil
{"title":"Association Between Global Sleep Quality and Coronary Microvascular Function in Male Physicians With Occupational Burnout.","authors":"Roland von Känel, Mary Princip, Sarah A Holzgang, Alexia Rossi, Andreas A Giannopoulos, Ronny R Buechel, Claudia Zuccarella-Hackl, Aju P Pazhenkottil","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001269","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Occupational burnout has been associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease, although the mechanisms involved are elusive. We investigated whether poor global sleep quality is associated with impaired coronary microvascular function in male physicians, a professional group at increased risk of burnout.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study participants were 30 male physicians with clinical burnout and 30 controls without burnout defined by the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Global sleep quality was measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Endothelium-dependent (cold pressor test) and endothelium-independent (adenosine challenge) coronary microvascular functions were quantified with myocardial perfusion positron emission tomography. In multivariable analyses, the interaction between burnout and the PSQI global score was regressed on measures of coronary microvascular function, adjusting for age, body mass index, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and main effects of burnout and PSQI score.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of poor sleepers (PSQI score >5) was 40% in the burnout group and 10% in the control group. Adjusting for covariates, burnout-by-global PSQI score interactions were observed for myocardial blood flow (MBF) at rest ( r partial = -0.30, p = .025), endothelium-dependent coronary flow reserve ( r partial = -0.26, p = .062), MBF response ( r partial = -0.30, p = .028), and hyperemic MBF ( r partial = -0.34, p = .012). The global PSQI score was inversely associated with these MBF measures in the burnout group relative to the control group. No significant interactions emerged for endothelium-independent MBF.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In male physicians with occupational burnout, poor global sleep quality was associated with reduced endothelium-dependent coronary microvascular function, suggesting a mechanism by which burnout may affect cardiovascular health.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"216-226"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138047858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001295
Jensine Paoletti-Hatcher, Daniel L Argueta, E Lydia Wu-Chung, Michelle A Chen, Ryan L Brown, Angie S LeRoy, Kyle W Murdock, Julian F Thayer, Christopher P Fagundes
{"title":"High Heart Rate Variability Buffers the Effect of Attachment Insecurity on Sleep Quality.","authors":"Jensine Paoletti-Hatcher, Daniel L Argueta, E Lydia Wu-Chung, Michelle A Chen, Ryan L Brown, Angie S LeRoy, Kyle W Murdock, Julian F Thayer, Christopher P Fagundes","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001295","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Sleep quality is an important health-protective factor. Psychosocial factors, including attachment orientation, may be valuable for understanding who is at risk of poor sleep quality and associated adverse health outcomes. High attachment anxiety is reliably associated with adverse health outcomes, whereas high attachment avoidance is associated with adverse health outcomes when co-occurring with poor self-regulatory capacity, indexed by heart rate variability (HRV). We examined the associations between attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, HRV, and sleep quality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using longitudinal data from a sample of 171 older adults measured four times over 1 year ( M = 66.18 years old; 67.83% women), we separated the between-person variance (which we call \"trait\") and within-person variance (which we call \"state\") for attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, and HRV (via the root mean square of successive differences). Sleep quality was measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher trait attachment anxiety was associated with poorer global sleep quality ( B = 0.22, p = .005). Higher state attachment avoidance was associated with poorer sleep quality ( B = -0.13, p = .01), except for those with higher trait HRV. Higher state attachment anxiety was associated with poorer sleep quality ( B = -0.15, p = .002), except for those with higher or mean trait HRV. Higher trait attachment anxiety was associated with poorer sleep quality ( B = -0.31, p = .02), except for those with higher trait HRV.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>High trait HRV mitigated the adverse effects of attachment insecurity on sleep quality. Our results suggest that people with high trait HRV had greater self-regulation capacity, which may enable them to enact emotion regulation strategies effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"349-358"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11081832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140050268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001297
Parisa R Kaliush, Jonathan E Butner, Paula G Williams, Elisabeth Conradt, Sheila E Crowell
{"title":"Dynamic Associations Among Sleep, Emotion Dysregulation, and Desire to Live in a Perinatal Sample.","authors":"Parisa R Kaliush, Jonathan E Butner, Paula G Williams, Elisabeth Conradt, Sheila E Crowell","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001297","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The present study prospectively examined dynamic associations among sleep, emotion dysregulation, and desire to live during the perinatal transition, as it was theorized that these factors may contribute to the emergence of postpartum suicide risk.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Ninety-four women ( Mage = 29.2 years; 23.4% Latina) wore wrist actigraphs and completed twice daily surveys for 7 days during the third trimester of pregnancy, 6 weeks postpartum, and 4 months postpartum. Multilevel, change-as-outcome models were built to examine changes in attractor dynamics among sleep, emotion dysregulation, and desire to live, as well as if sleep-emotion dysregulation dynamics differed based on participants' desires to live.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From pregnancy to 6 weeks postpartum, emotion dysregulation ( B = -0.09, p = .032) and desire to live ( B = -0.16, p < .001) exhibited more stable temporal patterns around higher emotion dysregulation and lower desire to live. Compared to women who reported consistently high desires to live, those who experienced fluctuations in their desires to live exhibited lower, more stable sleep efficiency during pregnancy ( B = -0.90, p < .001). At 4 months postpartum, those with fluctuating desires to live exhibited a coupling dynamic whereby low sleep efficiency predicted increases in emotion dysregulation ( B = -0.16, p = .020).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study was the first to examine nonlinear dynamics among risk factors for postpartum suicide, which may be evident as early as pregnancy and 6 weeks postpartum. Sleep health, in particular, warrants further exploration as a key susceptibility factor in the emergence of postpartum suicide risk.</p><p><strong>Preregistration: </strong>Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/qxb75/?view_only=799ffe5c048842dfb89d3ddfebaa420d ).</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"272-282"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11081831/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140060419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001302
Matthew R Cribbet, Julian F Thayer, Marc N Jarczok, Joachim E Fischer
{"title":"High-Frequency Heart Rate Variability Is Prospectively Associated With Sleep Complaints in a Healthy Working Cohort.","authors":"Matthew R Cribbet, Julian F Thayer, Marc N Jarczok, Joachim E Fischer","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001302","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Vagus nerve functioning, as indexed by high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), has been implicated in a wide range of mental and physical health conditions, including sleep complaints. This study aimed to test associations between HF-HRV measured during sleep (sleep HF-HRV) and subjective sleep complaints 4 years later.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>One hundred forty-three healthy employees (91% male; MAge = 47.8 years [time 2], SD = 8.3 years) of an industrial company in Southern Germany completed the Jenkins Sleep Problems Scale, participated in a voluntary health assessment, and were given a 24-hour ambulatory heart rate recording device in 2007. Employees returned for a health assessment and completed the Jenkins Sleep Problems Scale 4 years later.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Hierarchical regression analyses showed that lower sleep HF-HRV measured in 2007 was associated with higher self-reported sleep complaints 4 years later after controlling for covariates (rab,c = -0.096, b = -0.108, 95% CI, -0.298 to 0.081, ΔR2 = 0.009, p = .050).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These data are the first to show that lower sleep HF-HRV predicted worse sleep 4 years later, highlighting the importance of vagus nerve functioning in adaptability and health.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":"86 4","pages":"342-348"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11090416/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140899532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001301
Chenlu Gao, Michael K Scullin
{"title":"Objective and Subjective Intraindividual Variability in Sleep: Predisposing Factors and Health Consequences.","authors":"Chenlu Gao, Michael K Scullin","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001301","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We investigated the factors that predispose or precipitate greater intraindividual variability (IIV) in sleep. We further examined the potential consequences of IIV on overall sleep quality and health outcomes, including whether these relationships were found in both self-reported and actigraphy-measured sleep IIV.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In Study 1, 699 US adults completed a Sleep Intra-Individual Variability Questionnaire and self-reported psychosocial, sleep quality, and health outcomes. In Study 2, 100 university students wore actigraphy and completed psychosocial, sleep, and health surveys at multiple timepoints.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In cross-sectional analyses that controlled for mean sleep duration, predisposing/precipitating factors to greater IIV were being an underrepresented racial/ethnic minority (Study 1: F = 13.95, p < .001; Study 2: F = 7.03, p = .009), having greater stress (Study 2: r values ≥ 0.32, p values ≤ .002) or trait vulnerability to stress (Study 1: r values ≥ 0.15, p values < .001), and showing poorer time management (Study 1: r values ≤ -0.12, p values ≤ .004; Study 2: r values ≤ -0.23, p values ≤ .028). In addition, both studies showed that greater sleep IIV was associated with decreased overall sleep quality, independent of mean sleep duration (Study 1: r values ≥ 0.20, p values < .001; Study 2: r values ≥ 0.33, p values ≤ .001). Concordance across subjective and objective IIV measures was modest ( r values = 0.09-0.35) and similar to concordance observed for subjective-objective mean sleep duration measures.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Risk for irregular sleep patterns is increased in specific demographic groups and may be precipitated by, or contribute to, higher stress and time management inefficiencies. Irregular sleep may lead to poor sleep quality and adverse health outcomes, independent of mean sleep duration, underscoring the importance of addressing sleep consistency.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"298-306"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140028853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Interplay Between Stress, Sleep, and Health: A Special Issue Commemorating the Contributions of Dr. Martica Hall.","authors":"Wendy M Troxel, Julian F Thayer, Daniel J Buysse","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":"86 4","pages":"213-215"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140899524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psychosomatic MedicinePub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001303
Jin H Wen, Patrick Klaiber, Kate A Leger, Patrick L Hill, Gabrielle N Pfund, Danica C Slavish, Anita DeLongis, Nancy L Sin
{"title":"Nightly Sleep Predicts Next-Morning Expectations for Stress and Positive Experiences.","authors":"Jin H Wen, Patrick Klaiber, Kate A Leger, Patrick L Hill, Gabrielle N Pfund, Danica C Slavish, Anita DeLongis, Nancy L Sin","doi":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001303","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PSY.0000000000001303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Abundant research has linked nightly sleep as an antecedent of daily psychosocial experiences; however, less is known about sleep's influence on daily expectations of these experiences. Therefore, this research examined the day-to-day associations of sleep quality, duration, and efficiency with next-day expectations for stress(ors) and positive experiences, as well as whether these expectations were related to end-of-day reports of physical symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In Study 1, U.S. adults ( n = 354; ages 19 to 74) completed twice-daily diaries for 10 weekdays about sleep, expectations for encountering daily stressors and positive events, and physical symptoms. In Study 2, adults in Canada ( n = 246; ages 25 to 87) wore a sleep watch for 14 consecutive days and completed mobile surveys 5×/day about sleep, stressfulness and pleasantness expectations, and physical symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multilevel models indicated that self-reported sleep quality and duration, but not efficiency, were associated with lower next-day expectations for stressors (Study 1) and stressfulness (Study 2). Self-reported sleep quality (Study 1) and all sleep indices (Study 2) predicted greater next-day expectations for positive events and pleasantness, respectively. For actigraphy-assessed sleep (Study 2), only longer-than-usual actigraphic sleep duration was associated with lower stressfulness expectations, whereas both sleep duration and efficiency were positively linked with daily pleasantness expectations. Only pleasantness expectations (Study 2)-but not daily stressfulness and event expectations (Study 1)-predicted end-of-day physical symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings suggest the importance of sleep on expectations of next-day stress and positive experiences, of which may have implications for daily physical health.</p>","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"261-271"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140185432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Houtan Totonchi Afshar, Joel N Fishbein, Erica J Martinez, Gage M Chu, Mohammad A Shenasa, Dhakshin Ramanathan, Matthew S Herbert
{"title":"Effects of Chronic Pain Diagnoses on the Antidepressant Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.","authors":"Houtan Totonchi Afshar, Joel N Fishbein, Erica J Martinez, Gage M Chu, Mohammad A Shenasa, Dhakshin Ramanathan, Matthew S Herbert","doi":"10.1097/psy.0000000000001311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001311","url":null,"abstract":"Major depressive disorder (MDD) and chronic pain are highly comorbid and bidirectionally related. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is effective in treating MDD, but additional research is needed to determine if chronic pain interferes with rTMS for MDD.","PeriodicalId":20918,"journal":{"name":"Psychosomatic Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140806531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}