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Relationship of night sleep duration with health lifestyle, depressive symptoms, internet addiction in Chinese High school Students

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This study aimed to explore effects of night sleep duration and its relationships with health lifestyle, depressive symptoms and Internet addiction among high school students. In this study, we used multistage stratified random cluster sampling method. A total of 2149 adolescents aged 14–18 years old were recruited in the study. Associations among sleep duration and demographic characteristics, health lifestyle, depressive symptoms and Internet addiction among Chinese students were analyzed by univariate analysis and binary logistic regression analysis. Then, the structural equation model (SEM) was used to study the relationships between sleep duration and other variables. The mean sleep duration was (6.56 ± 1.15) hours. Approximately 16.0% of all participants had short sleep duration, and 20.5% had long sleep duration. Binary logistic regression analysis revealed that having more high sugar drinks and fried foods were positively associated with short sleep duration. Depressive symptoms not only directly had a negatively impact on sleep duration, but also had an indirect effect on sleep duration through Internet addiction. Sleep problems are common within the population of adolescents. Depressive symptoms was an important factor in the prevention of abnormal sleep duration, and interventions that target Internet addiction is key to reduce inadequate sleep.

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We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Jikang Shi for her assistance in this study.

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This research was funded by Science Research of the Department of Education of Jilin Province (JJKH20220956SK), International innovation team of Jilin University (2019GJTD06) and Jilin higher education research plan (JGJX2021D14). This research was also funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M691909) and Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (21YJC630028).

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Conceived and designed the experiments: SLM, YYH, TTG. Analyzed and interpreted the data: RLC, HR, ZYQ. Wrote the first draft of the paper: YYH, LLL, CEL, CCM, XMG and JPL.

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Hu, Y., Gao, T., Cao, R. et al. Relationship of night sleep duration with health lifestyle, depressive symptoms, internet addiction in Chinese High school Students. Sleep Biol. Rhythms 20, 381–390 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41105-022-00382-9

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