Skin color stratification and sleep duration: Evidence from a nationally representative sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Sleep shapes population health. While substantial research has illustrated that sleep duration is stratified by racial/ethnic identification in the United States, less is known regarding how these population patterns may also vary by skin color. This is an oversight given that a burgeoning body of research has documented the association between skin color and health. The current study aims to document skin color-based disparities in sleep duration at the population level.

Methods

We analyzed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health, n = 9114) using multinomial regression to predict differences among adults residing in the US in 2016-2018 in self-reported sleep duration between short sleep (≤6 hours per 24-hour period) and long slee

SUBMITTER: Brown H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12806834 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature