Association between physical activity over a 10-year period and current insomnia symptoms, sleep duration and daytime sleepiness: a European population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the relationship between physical activity over a 10-year period and current symptoms of insomnia, daytime sleepiness and estimated sleep duration in adults aged 39-67.

Design

Population-based, multicentre cohort study.

Setting

21 centres in nine European countries.

Methods

Included were 4339 participants in the third follow-up to the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS III), who answered questions on physical activity at baseline (ECRHS II) and questions on physical activity, insomnia symptoms, sleep duration and daytime sleepiness at 10-year follow-up (ECRHS III). Participants who reported that they exercised with a frequency of at least two or more times a week, for 1 hour/week or more, were classified as being physicall

SUBMITTER: Bjornsdottir E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10966784 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature