Associations between Recession Hardships and Subjective and Objective Sleep Measures in the Midlife in the United States Study: Race and Gender Differences.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigates the associations of retrospective reports of Recession hardships with 10-year changes in subjective and objective indicators of sleep, and whether these associations differ by race and gender.

Methods

501 adults (14.57% Black; 54.49% female) from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study reported on the subjective Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) across two waves (pre-Recession, collected 2004-2009; post-Recession, collected 2017-2022), as well as Recession hardships since 2008. A sub-sample of 201 adults (25.37% Black; 58.21% female) provided objective actigraphy-measured sleep data (total sleep time, sleep onset latency, sleep efficiency) across the two waves.

Results

Descriptive analyses revealed Black participants had h

SUBMITTER: Bhat AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580659 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature