Examining social capital in relation to sleep duration, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness

Sleep, which plays an important role in health and well-being, is socially patterned such that certain demographic groups have worse sleep health than others. One possible mechanism driving sleep disparities is social capital. The current study examines the association between social capital and sel...

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Published in:Sleep medicine 2019-08, Vol.60, p.165-172
Main Authors: Robbins, Rebecca, Jean-Louis, Girardin, Gallagher, Rebecca A., Hale, Lauren, Branas, Charles C., Gooneratne, Nalaka, Alfonso-Miller, Pamela, Perlis, Michael, Grandner, Michael A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Community
Female
Humans
Insomnia
Male
Public health
Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data
Self Report
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - ethnology
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - psychology
Sleepiness
Social Capital
Social environment
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:Sleep, which plays an important role in health and well-being, is socially patterned such that certain demographic groups have worse sleep health than others. One possible mechanism driving sleep disparities is social capital. The current study examines the association between social capital and self-reported sleep variables (eg, duration, insomnia symptoms, and daytime sleepiness) among a sample of 1007 participants from the Sleep Health and Activity, Diet and Environment Study (SHADES). Logistic regressions were used to estimate whether the sleep variables were associated with social capital measures. All models control for age, sex, race/ethnicity (Non-Hispanic White, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and multicultural/other), income, and education (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, and college graduate). Lower likelihood of membership in groups was seen for long sleepers (>9hrs, p-value
ISSN:1389-9457
1878-5506
DOI:10.1016/j.sleep.2019.03.019