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@ARTICLE{Haritos:1045049,
author = {Haritos, Rafailia and Küppers, Vincent and Samea, Fateme
and Riemann, Dieter and Jessen, Frank and Eickhoff, Simon
and Forugh S. Dafsari, and Tahmasian, Masoud},
title = {{T}he effect of psychotherapy on the multivariate
association between insomnia and depressive symptoms in
late-life depression},
journal = {European psychiatry},
volume = {68},
number = {1},
issn = {0924-9338},
address = {Cambridge},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-03491},
pages = {},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Background Late-life depression (LLD) is prevalent in older
adults and linked to increased disability, mortality, and
suicide risk. Insomnia symptoms are considered common
remaining symptoms of LLD following treatment. However, the
multivariate relationship between insomnia and depressive
symptoms and the impact of psychotherapy on their
interrelationship is insufficiently assessed.Methods We used
data from 185 patients with LLD recruited from seven
university hospitals in Germany. Participants had undergone
eight-week psychotherapy interventions (cognitive behavioral
therapy or supportive unspecific intervention). Three
regularized canonical correlation analyses (rCCA) assessed
the multivariate association between insomnia and depressive
symptoms at baseline, post-treatment, and six-month
follow-up. rCCA was conducted within a machine learning
framework with 100 repeated hold-out splits and permutation
tests to ensure robust findings. Canonical loadings and
cross-loading difference scores were calculated to examine
symptom changes before/after psychotherapy (Holm-Bonferroni
corrected p-value < 0.05).Results At baseline, a moderate
association was observed between insomnia and depressive
symptoms (r = 0.24). Interestingly, this association
slightly increased after the eight-week treatment period (r
= 0.42, pcorrected = 0.064) and remained significantly
elevated at the follow-up session (r = 0.49, pcorrected =
0.018). At baseline, anxiety-related depressive symptoms
were mainly associated with insomnia, while at
post-treatment and follow-up sessions, somatic and negative
affective symptoms showed the strongest correlation with
insomnia symptoms. Although depressive symptoms
significantly improved, insomnia symptoms remained unchanged
after psychotherapy.Conclusions Unlike depressive symptoms,
insomnia symptoms did not improve after psychotherapy,
highlighting the necessity to target insomnia for effective
LLD treatment.},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525) / 5252 - Brain Dysfunction and Plasticity
(POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5252},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {40898414},
UT = {WOS:001562232900001},
doi = {10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.10088},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1045049},
}