Gut Microbiota Changes and Their Relationship with Inflammation in Patients with Acute and Chronic Insomnia.

Purpose: The major purpose of this study was to detect the changes in gut microbiota composition and inflammatory cytokines production associated with acute and chronic insomnia. This study also evaluated the relationship between gut microbiota changes and increased inflammatory cytokines in insomnia patients.

Patients And Methods: Outpatients with acute and chronic insomnia (aged 26-55 years; n=20 and 38, respectively) and age/gender-matched healthy controls (n=38) were recruited from a southern China region.

Depressive symptoms between parent and adolescent survivors: A longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model.

Background: The association between parent-child depression following disasters has been well documented. However, longitudinal studies of posttraumatic depression using parent-child dyadic are scarce. This study aimed to investigate inter-related effects between parent and child depression, as well as predictors of depressive symptoms, in a large sample of Wenchuan earthquake survivors.

Predictors of the initiation of shift work disorder among Chinese intern nurses: a prospective study.

Aim: Individual vulnerability to shift work disorder (SWD) varies. The aim of the present study was to verify the individual characteristics that predicted SWD onset by following Chinese intern nurses who at baseline had not worked rotating or night shifts.

Methods: A total of 706 Chinese first-year intern female nurses aged 16-24 years were recruited.