Studies have revealed the effects of childhood adversity, anxiety, and negative coping on sleep quality in older adults
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BACKGROUND: Studies have revealed the effects of childhood adversity, anxiety, and negative coping on sleep quality in older adults, but few studies have focused on the association between childhood adversity and sleep quality in rural olde
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Sourced from the stated research gap and future-work section and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 31 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment among rural Chinese older women: anxiety and poor sleep as sequential correlates—A cross-sectional analysis (2026) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi
Limited research has empirically tested the hypothesis that anxiety and sleep quality mediate the depression–cognition association in older women. The study aims to fill this gap by using causal mediation analysis to examine the relationship between depressive symptoms, anxiety, sleep quality, and cognitive function in rural Chinese older women.
generalstated research gapevidence 5/5Keywords: limited research has empirically tested hypothesis anxiety sleep - Association of depression and sleep quality with frailty: a cross-sectional study in China (2024) · Frontiers in Public Health · cited 25× · doi
Further studies are needed to explore the pathways in which sleep quality and depression affect frailty, - Longitudinal studies could be conducted to examine the relationship between sleep quality, depression, and frailty over time, - Studies could be done to develop interventions to improve sleep quality and reduce depression in older adults
generalfuture-work sectionevidence 4/5Keywords: further studies needed explore pathways sleep quality depression - The relationship between childhood adversity and sleep quality among rural older adults in China: the mediating role of anxiety and negative coping (2024) · BMC Psychiatry · cited 6× · doi
BACKGROUND: Studies have revealed the effects of childhood adversity, anxiety, and negative coping on sleep quality in older adults, but few studies have focused on the association between childhood adversity and sleep quality in rural older adults and the potential mechanisms of this influence.
generalabstractevidence 4/5Keywords: childhood adversity sleep quality older adults background revealed effects anxiety negative coping focused association rural
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