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Being a night person is linked to poor sleep and negative feelings in obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Abstract
preference in OCD patients is associated with impaired sleep quality and higher .
- OCD patients with an eveningness preference experienced worse sleep quality compared to those with a morningness preference.
- Higher levels of negative affect were observed in OCD patients preferring eveningness.
- Impaired sleep quality in OCD patients was moderately correlated with anxiety and strongly correlated with depressive symptoms and negative affect.
- In contrast, the mixed psychiatric group did not show a link between eveningness preference and negative affect.
- Eveningness preference was predictive of poorer sleep quality in OCD patients, independent of depressive symptoms.
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Key numbers
17%
Decrease in Sleep Quality
Percentage of variance in PSQI scores explained by preference.
−0.35
Higher
Pearson's correlation coefficient between and in OCD patients.