{"id":51905,"date":"2026-11-15T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/research-links-poor-sleep-schedules-with-depression-and-anxiety-your-wearable-could-help-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:35:07","slug":"research-links-poor-sleep-schedules-with-depression-and-anxiety-your-wearable-could-help-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/research-links-poor-sleep-schedules-with-depression-and-anxiety-your-wearable-could-help-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Research links poor sleep schedules with depression and anxiety. Your wearable could help fix it.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The domain of sleep science using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wearables\/\" rel>wearables<\/a> has evolved by leaps and bounds in the past five years. The likes of Apple and Samsung have made considerable strides in using smartwatches and smart rings to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wearables\/how-does-sleep-tracking-work\/\" rel>track sleep patterns<\/a>. And we\u2019re not just talking about the amount of shut-eye you log on a daily basis, but also breakdowns of the various stages of sleep, such as deep sleep and REM.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as per a large study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, San Diego, wearables might offer some clues about mental health as well. The research found that an irregular sleep-wake schedule is linked with more severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, and loneliness. So far, experts have largely focused on sleep quality and the number of hours you sleep each day, and less is known about how sticking to a regular sleep schedule is tied to mental health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercially available wearable devices pair with smartphone apps that provide behavioral advice to users, and therefore could both gather sleep regularity information and provide users with data-driven recommendations to increase sleep regularity, such as ideal bed and wake times,\u201d the team notes in a paper published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-026-77545-y#Sec41\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific Reports<\/a> journal.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/wearables\/researchers-say-a-poor-schedule-is-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety-your-wearable-could-help-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The domain of sleep science using wearables has evolved by leaps and bounds in the past five years. The likes of Apple and Samsung have made considerable strides in using smartwatches and smart rings to track sleep patterns. And we\u2019re not just talking about the amount of shut-eye you log on a daily basis, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1399],"tags":[1210,36,6694,1484,347],"class_list":["post-51905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-techplus","tag-features","tag-mixtv","tag-tech-for-change","tag-wearable","tag-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}