Investigating the associations between productive housework activities, sleep hours and self-reported health among elderly men and women in western industrialised countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After retirement, elderly men and women allocate more time to housework activities, compared to working-age adults. Nonetheless, sleep constitutes the lengthiest time use activity among the elderly, but there has not been any study on the associations between time spent on housework activities, sleep duration and self-reported health among the older population. This study not only examined individual associations between self-reported health and both housework activities and sleep duration, but it also explored self-reported health by the interaction effect between housework activities and sleep duration separately for men and women.

Methods

Pooled data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) on 15,333 men and 20,907 women from Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Fran

SUBMITTER: Adjei NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5763579 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature