Summary: Owlet’s State of Parenting Report highlights the mental health challenges faced by new parents, with sleep deprivation, stress, and anxiety playing major roles. Parents, on average, lose three hours of sleep per night during their baby’s first year, contributing to … [Read more...]
Current and Former Athletes Show Similar Rates of Sleep Disturbances and Mental Health Disorders
Summary: A new study from Flinders University underscores the long-term mental health challenges athletes face, even after retirement, and emphasizes the reluctance of many to seek help, often due to privacy concerns. This suggests that sports organizations should provide … [Read more...]
‘Bed Rotting’ Trend Raises Concerns About Teen Mental Health
Summary: Embark Behavioral Health is raising awareness about the “bed rotting” trend, where teens spend excessive time in bed, potentially leading to loneliness, screen addiction, and negative impacts on mental health. The trend, popularized on social media as a way to recharge, … [Read more...]
Digital Mental Health Interventions Also Improve Sleep
Summary: Bend Health, Inc, announced that digital mental health interventions may improve sleep in children and adolescents, according to a study published in Digital Health. The study found that 77% of members with elevated sleep problems showed improvements after about two … [Read more...]
Sleep and Stress Major Players in US Mental Health Concerns: Poll
Summary: The 2024 American Psychiatric Association’s study shows a sizeable raise in stress among the US grown ups, with worry and snooze cited as critical contributors to mental well being challenges. Inspite of the surge in anxiousness, only a quarter of older people sought … [Read more...]
Shift Work in Early Life Affects Sleep and Mental Health in Midlife
Summary: A examine examining details from in excess of 7,000 people more than 30 decades uncovered that shift work in early adulthood are connected to poorer health and fitness outcomes, which include minimized rest top quality and elevated depressive indications, by age 50. All … [Read more...]
NSF Spotlights Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health in Congress
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) hosted the first Congressional Briefing on sleep health and mental health as part of the organization’s 2024 Sleep Awareness Week campaign. The Congressional Briefing, entitled Sleep Health is Mental Health, complements NSF’s efforts to educate … [Read more...]