4 results match your criteria: "Florida International University. Electronic address: dmcmakin@fiu.edu.[Affiliation]"
Sleep-related problems (SRPs) are a common precursor to anxiety disorders, especially during peri-adolescence, and may be a predictor of treatment response. However, evidence-based anxiety treatments do not alleviate SRPs to a clinically significant degree. The current study examines whether improving sleep in a sample of young adolescents previously treated for anxiety disorders can further reduce anxiety severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssociations between sleep health, negative reinforcement learning, and alcohol use among South Florida college students with elevated internalizing symptoms.
Alcohol
April 2024
Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St, Miami, FL 33199. Electronic address:
Article Synopsis
- Negative reinforcement may link sleep quality to alcohol use, especially in individuals with depression/anxiety, as poor sleep worsens negative emotions that alcohol can temporarily ease.
- A study involving 60 underage college students aimed to explore associations between sleep, alcohol use, and negative reinforcement learning, using wearable devices and daily sleep diaries.
- Findings revealed that while sleep timing variability and negative reinforcement learning had some positive associations with alcohol use, no indirect effects were found; however, interactions with depression and anxiety suggested these factors influence the relationship.
A cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based group sleep intervention improves behavior problems in at-risk adolescents by improving perceived sleep quality.
Behav Res Ther
December 2017
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, 12th Floor Redmond Barry Building, Parkville Campus, Melbourne, 3010, VIC Australia; Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403, OR, USA. Electronic address:
Objective: The aim of this study was to test whether a cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based group sleep intervention would improve behavior problems in at-risk adolescents, and whether these improvements were specifically related to improvements in sleep.
Method: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial conducted with 123 adolescent participants (female = 60%; mean age = 14.48, range 12.
The role of day-to-day emotions, sleep, and social interactions in pediatric anxiety treatment.
Behav Res Ther
March 2017
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 210 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Electronic address:
Do day-to-day emotions, social interactions, and sleep play a role in determining which anxious youth respond to supportive child-centered therapy (CCT) versus cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)? We explored whether measures of day-to-day functioning (captured through ecological momentary assessment, sleep diary, and actigraphy), along with clinical and demographic measures, were predictors or moderators of treatment outcome in 114 anxious youth randomized to CCT or CBT. We statistically combined individual moderators into a single, optimal composite moderator to characterize subgroups for which CCT or CBT may be preferable. The strongest predictors of better outcome included: (a) experiencing higher positive affect when with one's mother and (b) fewer self-reported problems with sleep duration.
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