Yuen Mi Cheon ^*

• Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

links between sleep and mental health, the intricate details in various aspects of sleep and mental health across various contexts have yet to be discovered. The articles included in this research topic, "Understanding the Link Between Sleep and Mental Health" are the latest research that address this gap and contributes to elaborating the current state of our understanding of sleep and mental health. This editorial summarizes the main findings of these studies, highlights the main contributions and provide suggestions for future research. Amir et al. ( 2024) examined burnout and coping mechanisms among healthcare professionals in central Uganda. They found a high prevalence of burnout, active coping, positive reframing, and denial, dysfunctional coping to be correlated with burnout, while emotion-focused coping was not.Counterintuitively, a little more than half of the participants (56.9%) in this study reported having adequate sleep. Coelho et al. (2024) sought to validate a French version of Sleep Beliefs Scale (SBS).The French version of SBS in their study were appropriately translated and could be validated. Theses scores were associated with depression but not anxiety. Pal et al. (2024) examined the association between childhood abuse and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among the women in the United States.They found that early childhood sexual abuse was 2.4 times more commonly reported among women with OSA. Also, BMI mediated the link between early childhood physical abuse and OSA. In Tari et al. 2023). Although each of these studies focus on unique aspects of the sleep-mental health link, their results imply that this link is a globally relevant phenomenon that requires further attention within a variety of national contexts-possibly comparing the similarities and differences across nations and cultures.The unique aspects of the sleep-mental health links examined in these studies also contribute to the existing literature by deepening and widening our perspective providing creative ideas for multitude of follow-up studies. Amir et al. ( 2024) suggests a potential role of coping strategies in the link between adequate sleep and burnout among healthcare professionals in Uganda. Unfortunately, this study did not specifically examine the direct association between adequate sleep and burnout as well as the moderating role of coping. Examining these associations will provide helpful information for Overall, the studies in this research topic have made contributions especially by providing a global perspective and suggesting unique aspects of sleep-mental health links. It is hoped that future studies would utilize these findings to extend our knowledge of the link between sleep and mental health even further.