Drug Use in Night Owls May Increase the Risk for Mental Health Problems

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.819566" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnins.2021.819566</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Drug Use in Night Owls May Increase the Risk for Mental Health Problems

Original language description

Drugs of abuse are widely known to worsen mental health problems, but this relationship may not be a simple causational one. Whether or not a person is susceptible to the negative effects of drugs of abuse may not only be determined by their addictive properties, but also the users&apos; chronotype, which determines their daily activity patterns. The present study investigates the relationship between chronotype, drug use and mental health problems in a cross-sectional community sample. Participants (n = 209) completed a selection of questionnaires online, including the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire, the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, the Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test and the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence. We conducted multiple regression models to determine relationships between participants&apos; chronotype and their reported mental health symptoms and then estimated mediation models to investigate the extent to which their drug consumption accounted for the identified associations. Chronotype was significantly associated with participants&apos; overall mental health (beta = 0.16, p = 0.022) and their anxiety levels (beta = 0.18, p = 0.009) but not with levels of depression or stress. However, both relationships were fully mediated by participants&apos; overall drug consumption. Thus, late chronotypes, so-called &quot;night owls&quot;, not only use more drugs but consequently have an increased risk for developing anxiety and deteriorating mental health status. This group may be particularly vulnerable to the negative psychological effects of drugs. Our results point toward the importance of considering chronotype in designing preventative and therapeutic innovations, specifically for anxiety, which at present has been largely neglected.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Neuroscience [online]

ISSN

1662-453X

e-ISSN

1662-453X

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Jan 11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

819566

UT code for WoS article

000748024900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123403267