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Ethnic/racial discrimination is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes, and this study considered sleep disturbance as a mediating pathway. Employing a combination of daily diary and biannual surveys, multilevel structural equation models estimated the indirect effects of sleep/wake concerns on negative, anxious, and positive mood, rumination, and somatic symptoms. In a sample of 350 urban Asian (74% Chinese, 8% Korean, 4% Indian, 1% Filipinx, 1% Vietnamese, and 12% other), Black, and Latinx (25% Dominican, 24% South American, 22% Mexican, 15% Puerto Rican, 5% Central American, and 9% other) youth (M = 14.27 years, 69% female, 77% U.S. born, 76% monoethnic/racial, data collected from 2015 to 2018), there was evidence for sleep disturbances mediating the impact of ethnic/racial discrimination on adjustment. Nighttime disturbance, daytime dysfunction, and daytime sleepiness evidenced partial or full mediation for daily‐ and person‐level outcomes (υ = 0.1%–17.9%). Reciprocal associations between sleep disturbances and negative mood and rumination were also observed.

The diagnosis of hyperactive-impulsive subtype may predict the severity of ADHD symptoms.

IntroductionPregnancy and puerperium are universal events that face the majority of women in the reproductive age all around the world, during which major biological, hormonal, and psychological events occur. This study was conducted to verify the hypothesis and investigate (i) psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period and its comparison with controls. (ii) Is there difference in the psychiatric state across the four perinatal periods? Patients and methods Accordingly, a study was conducted on 105 women who were pregnant or in the postpartum period. They were selected from the outpatient clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in the Ain Shams University. Control nonpregnant women were also selected. They were subjected to Mini International Neuropsychiatric InterviewPlus, Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. ResultsOur study revealed that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy was not significantly different in comparison with controls. However, it is much higher than controls during the third trimester with slight decrease in the postpartum period. The most common diagnosis that was found is adjustment disorder all through pregnancy. There were no significant differences between psychiatric morbidity across the perinatal period. ConclusionWe can conclude that women are vulnerable to psychiatric morbidity in the perinatal period especially in the third trimester and they have high depressive and anxiety states.

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