Racial/ethnic disparities in the trajectories of insomnia symptoms from childhood to young adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

To examine differences in the longitudinal prevalence of childhood insomnia symptoms across black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and non-Hispanic white groups.

Methods

Participants were 519 children from the Penn State Child Cohort (baseline [V1] from 2000-2005) who were followed up 8 years later as adolescents (V2) and 15 years later as young adults (S3). Mean age at S3 was 24.1 ± 2.7 years. Approximately, 76.5% identified as non-Hispanic white, 12.9% as black/African American, 7.1% as Hispanic/Latinx, and 3.5% as "other" race/ethnicity. Insomnia symptoms were defined as parent-reported (childhood) or self-reported (adolescence and young adulthood) moderate-to-severe difficulties initiating/maintaining sleep. Longitudinal trajectories of insomnia sympto

SUBMITTER: Singh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11082472 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature