Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although racial and ethnic disparities are well documented in children's mean levels of sleep, particularly duration, evidence is mixed for sleep variability, an important sleep dimension of growing interest. Most research has also focused on comparisons of Black and White children, with limited attention to sleep variability disparities among other racially and ethnically minoritized groups such as Asian, Latinx, and multiracial children.

Objective

To investigate racial and ethnic disparities in children's mean levels of sleep and variability of sleep across multiple dimensions and diverse racial and ethnic groups using actigraphy data.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (A

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11632548 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature