Black-White Differences in Housing Type and Sleep Duration as Well as Sleep Difficulties in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Housing environments can directly and indirectly affect sleep, and blacks are more likely than whites to live in suboptimal housing conditions, which may independently contribute to sleep disparities. However, few large-scale epidemiological studies consider the potential influence of housing type on sleep health. Using data from the 2004-2015 National Health Interview Survey, we investigated overall and Black-White differences in the association between housing type (house/apartment versus mobile home/trailer) and sleep duration as well as sleep difficulties among 226,208 adults in the U.S. Poisson regression with robust variance was used to estimate sex-specific prevalence ratios (PR) for sleep categories, first comparing houses/apartments to mobile homes/trailers and then blacks to whit

SUBMITTER: Johnson DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5923606 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature