Journal article
Associations of neighborhood characteristics with sleep timing and quality: the Multi-Ethnic Study Of Atherosclerosis
Sleep (New York, N.Y.), v 36(10), pp 1543-1551
01 Oct 2013
PMID: 24082314
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Abstract
To investigate the associations of specific neighborhood features (disorder, safety, social cohesion, physical environment, and socioeconomic status) with sleep duration and quality.
Cross-sectional. One wave of a population-based study (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).
Community-dwelling participants in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.
There were 1,406 participants (636 males, 770 females).
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Sleep was assessed using reported hours of sleep, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and insomnia symptoms. Neighborhood characteristics were assessed via questionnaires administered to neighbors of study participants and were aggregated to the neighborhood (census tract) level using empirical Bayes estimation. An adverse social environment (characterized by high disorder, and low safety and social cohesion) was associated with shorter sleep duration after adjustment for the physical environment, neighborhood and individual-level socioeconomic status (SES), and other short sleep risk factors (mean difference per standard deviation increase in summary social environment scale 0.24 h 95% confidence interval 0.08, 0.43). Adverse neighborhood social and physical environments, and neighborhood SES were associated with greater sleepiness, but associations with physical environments were no longer statistically significant after adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics. Neighborhood SES was a weaker and less consistent predictor of specific measures of neighborhood social and physical environments. Neighborhood characteristics were not associated with insomnia.
Shortened sleep related to adverse social environments represents one potential pathway through which neighborhoods may influence health.
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- Title
- Associations of neighborhood characteristics with sleep timing and quality: the Multi-Ethnic Study Of Atherosclerosis
- Creators
- Amy S Desantis - Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarAna V Diez RouxKari Moore - University of MichiganKelly G Baron - Northwestern UniversityMahasin S Mujahid - University of California, BerkeleyF Javier Nieto - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Publication Details
- Sleep (New York, N.Y.), v 36(10), pp 1543-1551
- Grant note
- R01 HL071759 / NHLBI NIH HHS UL1 TR000150 / NCATS NIH HHS K23 HL109110 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000325135600019
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84885153623
- Other Identifier
- 991020112261504721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Neurosciences