Associations of Everyday Discrimination With Insomnia and Short Sleep Duration Among Older Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Discrimination may contribute to sleep health disparities among women, yet limited research has investigated the association between discrimination and insomnia with short sleep.

Methods and results

Among a racially and ethnically diverse sample of women (N=25 920; mean age, 72.2±6.1 years), we investigated the relationship of discrimination with insomnia symptoms and sleep duration. Poisson models with robust variance were fit to examine discrimination with insomnia, sleep duration (short <7 hours or long >9 hours versus recommended 7-9 hours), and insomnia short sleep phenotype adjusted for covariates. Insomnia symptoms, short and long sleep, and high discrimination were reported by 53%, 11%, 15%, and 40% of women, respectively. Women reporting high versus low d

SUBMITTER: Johnson DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11681463 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature