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Exterior housing conditions are associated with objective measures of poor sleep among low-income older adults with disabilities
Sleep health, v 7(6), pp 731-734
01 Dec 2021
PMID: 34629322
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Abstract
To examine the association of housing and neighborhood conditions with sleep among disadvantaged older adults.
We used data from 136 low-income, predominantly Black older adults with disabilities. Predictors were indices of: interior housing conditions (eg, pests, tripping hazards); exterior housing conditions (eg, broken windows); and neighborhood disorder (eg, litter, vacant buildings). Outcomes were actigraphic total sleep time (TST), wake after sleep onset (WASO), and sleep efficiency (SE).
In models adjusted for age, sex, education, living arrangement, comorbidities, and physical performance, each additional exterior housing problem was associated with 20.9-minutes less TST (95% confidence interval [CI]: −39.2, −2.6), 8.6-minutes more WASO (95% CI: 0.7, 16.5), and 2.3% lower SE (95% CI: −4.2, −0.4). The associations of interior housing conditions and neighborhood disorder with the sleep parameters were of smaller magnitude and not statistically significant.
Future studies should examine the effects of housing repair on sleep health.
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- Title
- Exterior housing conditions are associated with objective measures of poor sleep among low-income older adults with disabilities
- Creators
- Safiyyah M. Okoye - Johns Hopkins UniversityAdam P. Spira - Johns Hopkins UniversityNancy A. Perrin - Johns Hopkins MedicineJennifer A. Schrack - Johns Hopkins UniversityHae-Ra Han - Johns Hopkins UniversitySarah Wanigatunga - Johns Hopkins UniversityCasandra Nyhuis - Johns Hopkins UniversitySarah L. Szanton - Johns Hopkins University
- Publication Details
- Sleep health, v 7(6), pp 731-734
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Doctoral Nursing
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000729188400010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85120501492
- Other Identifier
- 991021867181804721
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