Sleep in People Experiencing Homelessness Under Different Conditions and Seasons.

ABSTRACT: Poor sleep represents a central health disparity for people experiencing homelessness, and any intervention to alleviate the impacts of homelessness should aim to improve sleep. We measured actimetry-based sleep in homeless adults spending their nights in four types of shelters in Seattle, WA, during the summer and winter. Homeless participants experienced more sleepless nights than housed participants in both seasons. During the summer sleeping nights, homeless participants experienced sleep patterns similar to housed subjects, but during the winter, their sleep duration was up to 1.5 hours shorter. Similarly, sleep quality, determined through sleep variability index, activity during the night, and intraindividual variability of sleep parameters, was poorer during the winter in homeless t

SUBMITTER: Rice A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11785220 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature