A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders (2025) found that late adolescents and young adults with weekend catch-up sleep had 41% lower odds of daily depressive symptoms compared to those without it.
In addition, healthy weekday sleep duration at an optimal time each had twice the benefit for depressive symptoms.
The authors concluded that weekend catch-up sleep may reduce the incidence of daily depressive symptoms in late adolescents and young adults.
These results suggest that prevention and mental health professionals and parents should promote weekend catch-up sleep along with getting adequate weekday sleep to improve the mental health of young people.
At Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW), we believe that promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors should be integrated within substance use prevention programs to enhance broader mental and physical wellbeing among young people.
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Read this research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032725020555?via%3Dihub
Learn more about this study: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260106224623.htm