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The spread of sleep loss influences drug use in adolescent social networks.


ABSTRACT: Troubled sleep is a commonly cited consequence of adolescent drug use, but it has rarely been studied as a cause. Nor have there been any studies of the extent to which sleep behavior can spread in social networks from person to person to person. Here we map the social networks of 8,349 adolescents in order to study how sleep behavior spreads, how drug use behavior spreads, and how a friend's sleep behavior influences one's own drug use. We find clusters of poor sleep behavior and drug use that extend up to four degrees of separation (to one's friends' friends' friends' friends) in the social network. Prospective regression models show that being central in the network negatively influences future sleep outcomes, but not vice versa. Moreover, if a friend sleeps

SUBMITTER: Mednick SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2841645 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The spread of sleep loss influences drug use in adolescent social networks.

Mednick Sara C SC   Christakis Nicholas A NA   Fowler James H JH  

PloS one 20100319 3


Troubled sleep is a commonly cited consequence of adolescent drug use, but it has rarely been studied as a cause. Nor have there been any studies of the extent to which sleep behavior can spread in social networks from person to person to person. Here we map the social networks of 8,349 adolescents in order to study how sleep behavior spreads, how drug use behavior spreads, and how a friend's sleep behavior influences one's own drug use. We find clusters of poor sleep behavior and drug use that  ...[more]

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