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Research<\/strong> Christmas 2025: Shifting perspectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health in England: population based retrospective cohort study<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Melanie A de Lange<\/a>, Kate Birnie<\/a>, Rebecca C Richmond<\/a>,\u00a0et al<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BMJ<\/em>\u00a02025;\u00a0391\u00a0doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj-2025-085962<\/a>\u00a0(Published 17 December 2025)Cite this as:\u00a0BMJ<\/em>\u00a02025;391:e085962<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Objective<\/strong> To explore the acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health events in primary and secondary care in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design<\/strong> Population based retrospective cohort study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting<\/strong> English primary care practices contributing to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD database, linked to hospital admissions and accident and emergency data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants<\/strong> 683\u2009809 people (road traffic injuries: all ages; cardiovascular disease: aged \u226540 years; all other conditions: \u226510 years) registered with a participating English general practice, with a health event for one of the health conditions of interest in their primary or secondary care record in the eight weeks surrounding the spring or autumn clock changes between 2008 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main outcome measures<\/strong> Health events were defined as a diagnosis code (or symptom code and prescription for mental health conditions in primary care) of anxiety, major acute cardiovascular disease, depression, eating disorder, road traffic injury, self-harm, or sleep disorder in primary or secondary care or a psychiatric condition in accident and emergency. Negative binomial regression models, adjusted for day of the week and region (and Easter weekend in spring), compared mean event rates per day in the week after the clock changes and the control period (four weeks before the changes and weeks 2-4 after).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Results<\/strong>\u00a0In the week after the autumn clock change, five health conditions had fewer events: anxiety (from 17.3 events per day (per year, per region) to 16.7; incidence rate ratio 0.97, 95% confidence interval 0.95 to 0.98), acute cardiovascular disease (from 50.0 to 48.9; 0.98, 0.96 to 0.999), depression (from 44.6 to 42.7; 0.96, 0.95 to 0.97), psychiatric conditions (from 3.5 to 3.3; 0.94, 0.90 to 0.98), and sleep disorders (from 5.4 to 4.9; 0.92, 0.87 to 0.97). Little evidence was found of reductions in eating disorder diagnoses, road traffic injuries, or self-harm or of changes after the spring clock change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table 1<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sample characteristics at each patient\u2019s start of follow-up*. Values are numbers (percentages)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Characteristics<\/th>Total sample (n=683\u2009809)\u2020<\/th>Spring clock change (n=410\u2009763)<\/th>Autumn clock change (n=424\u2009264)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Sex:<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
\u2003Male<\/td>294\u2009482 (43.1)<\/td>174\u2009981 (42.6)<\/td>180\u2009635 (42.6)<\/td><\/tr>
\u2003Female<\/td>389\u2009318 (56.9)<\/td>235\u2009775 (57.4)<\/td>243\u2009622 (57.4)<\/td><\/tr>
\u2003Missing<\/td>9 (0.0)<\/td>7 (0.0)<\/td>7 (0.0)<\/td><\/tr>
Age category, years:<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
\u2003<10<\/td>14\u2009323 (2.1)<\/td>7148 (1.7)<\/td>8260 (1.9)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200310-19<\/td>51\u2009783 (7.6)<\/td>28\u2009783 (7.0)<\/td>31\u2009263 (7.4)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200320-29<\/td>86\u2009196 (12.6)<\/td>49\u2009808 (12.1)<\/td>52\u2009911 (12.5)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200330-39<\/td>95\u2009629 (14.0)<\/td>56\u2009299 (13.7)<\/td>59\u2009456 (14.0)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200340-49<\/td>105\u2009432 (15.4)<\/td>63\u2009531 (15.5)<\/td>65\u2009852 (15.5)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200350-59<\/td>88\u2009482 (12.9)<\/td>53\u2009497 (13.0)<\/td>54\u2009900 (12.9)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200360-69<\/td>88\u2009393 (12.9)<\/td>54\u2009169 (13.2)<\/td>55\u2009425 (13.1)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200370-79<\/td>88\u2009569 (13.0)<\/td>56\u2009383 (13.7)<\/td>56\u2009369 (13.3)<\/td><\/tr>
\u200380-89<\/td>56\u2009143 (8.2)<\/td>35\u2009696 (8.7)<\/td>34\u2009671 (8.2)<\/td><\/tr>
\u2003\u226590<\/td>8859 (1.3)<\/td>5449 (1.3)<\/td>5157 (1.2)<\/td><\/tr>
Index of Multiple Deprivation:<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
\u2003Most deprived<\/td>175\u2009621 (25.7)<\/td>107\u2009208 (26.1)<\/td>110\u2009765 (26.1)<\/td><\/tr>
\u2003Rest<\/td>507\u2009650 (74.2)<\/td>303\u2009198 (73.8)<\/td>313\u2009167 (73.8)<\/td><\/tr>
\u2003Missing<\/td>538 (0.1)<\/td>357 (0.1)<\/td>332 (0.1)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
*\u00a0Start of follow-up=latest date of patient\u2019s start date in Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD or study start date (2 March 2008); Index of Multiple Deprivation is from 2019.
\u2020\u00a0Patients can appear in both spring and autumn analyses, so total sample is less than spring and autumn samples combined.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conclusion<\/strong> The week after the autumn clock change was associated with a reduction in events for cardiovascular disease, sleep disorders, and mental health disorders, but little evidence suggested that the spring clock change was associated with a change in the number of health events. Electronic health records contain the date that a health event is recorded by a clinician, which is not necessarily the date of symptom onset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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