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Mental health effects from urban bed bug infestation (Cimex lectularius L.): a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether bed bug infestation was linked to sleep disturbances and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Design

Exploratory cross-sectional study.

Setting

Convenience sample of tenants recruited in apartment complexes from Montreal, Canada.

Participants

39 bed bug-exposed tenants were compared with 52 unexposed tenants.

Main outcome measures

The effect of bed bug-exposed tenants on sleep disturbances, anxiety and depression symptoms measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, 5th subscale, Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale and Patient Health Questionnaire, 9-item, respectively.

Results

In adjusted models, bed bug infestation was strongly associated with measured anxiety symptoms (OR (95% CI)=4.8 (1.5 to 14.7)) and sleep disturbance (OR (95% CI)=5.0 (1.3-18.8)). There was a trend to report more symptoms of depression in the bed bug-infested group, although this finding was not statistically significant ((OR (95% CI)=2.5(0.8 to 7.3)).

Conclusions

These results suggest that individuals exposed to bed bug infestations are at risk of experiencing sleep disturbance and of developing symptoms of anxiety and possibly depression. Greater clinical awareness of this problem is needed in order for patients to receive appropriate mental healthcare. These findings highlight the need for undertaking of deeper inquiry, as well as greater collaboration between medical professionals, public health and community stakeholders.

SUBMITTER: Susser SR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3467661 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mental health effects from urban bed bug infestation (Cimex lectularius L.): a cross-sectional study.

Susser Stephanie Rebecca SR Perron Stéphane S Fournier Michel M Jacques Louis L Denis Geoffroy G Tessier François F Roberge Pasquale P

BMJ open 20120925 5

<h4>Objective</h4>To assess whether bed bug infestation was linked to sleep disturbances and symptoms of anxiety and depression.<h4>Design</h4>Exploratory cross-sectional study.<h4>Setting</h4>Convenience sample of tenants recruited in apartment complexes from Montreal, Canada.<h4>Participants</h4>39 bed bug-exposed tenants were compared with 52 unexposed tenants.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>The effect of bed bug-exposed tenants on sleep disturbances, anxiety and depression symptoms measured us ...[more]

PMID: 23015597

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Project description:BACKGROUND: Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are blood-feeding insects poised to become one of the major pests in households throughout the United States. Resistance of C. lectularius to insecticides/pesticides is one factor thought to be involved in its sudden resurgence. Despite its high-impact status, scant knowledge exists at the genomic level for C. lectularius. Hence, we subjected the C. lectularius transcriptome to 454 pyrosequencing in order to identify potential genes involved in pesticide resistance. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Using 454 pyrosequencing, we obtained a total of 216,419 reads with 79,596,412 bp, which were assembled into 35,646 expressed sequence tags (3902 contigs and 31744 singletons). Nearly 85.9% of the C. lectularius sequences showed similarity to insect sequences, but 44.8% of the deduced proteins of C. lectularius did not show similarity with sequences in the GenBank non-redundant database. KEGG analysis revealed putative members of several detoxification pathways involved in pesticide resistance. Lamprin domains, Protein Kinase domains, Protein Tyrosine Kinase domains and cytochrome P450 domains were among the top Pfam domains predicted for the C. lectularius sequences. An initial assessment of putative defense genes, including a cytochrome P450 and a glutathione-S-transferase (GST), revealed high transcript levels for the cytochrome P450 (CYP9) in pesticide-exposed versus pesticide-susceptible C. lectularius populations. A significant number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (296) and microsatellite loci (370) were predicted in the C. lectularius sequences. Furthermore, 59 putative sequences of Wolbachia were retrieved from the database. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge this is the first study to elucidate the genetic makeup of C. lectularius. This pyrosequencing effort provides clues to the identification of potential detoxification genes involved in pesticide resistance of C. lectularius and lays the foundation for future functional genomics studies.

Dataset Information

Mental health effects from urban bed bug infestation (Cimex lectularius L.): a cross-sectional study.

Objective

Design

Setting

Participants

Main outcome measures

Results

Conclusions

Publications

Mental health effects from urban bed bug infestation (Cimex lectularius L.): a cross-sectional study.

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