Mapping associations between anxiety and sleep problems among outpatients in high-altitude areas: a network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety and sleep problems are common comorbidities among outpatients living in high-altitude areas. Network analysis is a novel method to investigate the interaction and the association between symptoms across diverse disorders. This study used network analysis to investigate the network structure symptoms of anxiety and sleep problems among outpatients in high-altitude areas, and to explore the differences in symptom associations in various sex, age, educational levels and employment groups.

Methods

The data was collected from the Sleep Medicine Center of The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province from November 2017 to January 2021 with consecutive recruitment (N = 11,194). Anxiety and sleep problems were measured by the Chinese version of the seven-item Gen

SUBMITTER: Jin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10184966 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature