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Sleep, Depressive/Anxiety Disorders, and Obesity in Puerto Rican Youth
Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, v 24(1)
Mar 2017
PMID: 28239743
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Abstract
Adolescents from Puerto Rican backgrounds are found to have higher rates of obesity than adolescents from other ethnic groups in the US. The objective of this study is to examine whether sleeping the recommended number of hours and depression or anxiety disorder are independently related to risk for obesity in a sample of Island Puerto Rican adolescents, and whether the association between sleep and obesity is moderated by depression or anxiety disorder.
Data from the study were derived from the third wave of an island wide probability sample of Puerto Rican youth residing on the Island, 10-25 years of age (N = 825), with a response rate of 79.59%. The current study focuses on youth 10 to 19 years of age (n = 436).
In this sample, youth who slept less than the recommended number of hours (defined as 7-9 h per night) had a significantly increased risk for obesity and were three times as likely to be obese. Youth who met criteria for a depressive/anxiety disorder were almost 2.5 times as likely to be obese. However, the presence of an anxiety/depressive disorders did not moderate the association between sleeping the recommended number of hours and risk for obesity.
Sleeping less than the recommended number of hours may be an important risk factor for obesity status in Island Puerto Rican youth. These findings suggest that attention to healthy sleep behaviors and a sleep environment that promotes high quality sleep may be important for Puerto Rican adolescents at risk for obesity.
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- Title
- Sleep, Depressive/Anxiety Disorders, and Obesity in Puerto Rican Youth
- Creators
- Daphne Koinis-Mitchell - Brown UniversityNicolás Rosario-Matos - Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, UPR-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA.Rafael R Ramírez - Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, UPR-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA.Pedro García - Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, UPR-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA.Glorisa J Canino - Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, UPR-Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA.Alexander N Ortega - Department of Health Policy and Management,UCLA Fielding School of Public Health,Los Angeles,CA,USA
- Publication Details
- Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, v 24(1)
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Grant note
- K24 HL130451 / NHLBI NIH HHS R25 RR017589 / NCRR NIH HHS R01 MH069849 / NIMH NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000398035000009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85013979388
- Other Identifier
- 991019296873604721
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- Psychology, Clinical