A preliminary study of a composite sleep health score: associations with psychological distress, body mass index, and physical functioning in a low-income African American community.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although multiple individual sleep measures (eg, sleep duration, satisfaction) have been linked to a wide range of physical and mental health conditions, scant research has examined how individual sleep dimensions may act independently or additively to influence health. The current study investigates associations of 5 sleep dimensions (duration, satisfaction, efficiency, timing, and regularity), analyzed separately and simultaneously, with psychological distress, body mass index, and physical functioning among a low-income, predominantly African American population.

Design

We constructed a composite sleep health (SH) score from the sum of scores, representing "good' and "poor" ranges of 5 sleep measures (range 0-5).

Setting

Two low-income, predominantly Afr

SUBMITTER: DeSantis AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801051 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature