Sexual Orientation and Sleep Behaviors in a National Sample of Adolescents Followed Into Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Sexual minority adolescents experience mental and physical health disparities attributable to increased discrimination and minority stress. These same factors may also impair sleep health, although available literature on this topic is limited. This study examined longitudinal associations between adolescent sexual minority status and seven sleep behaviors in young adulthood and tested depressive symptoms and overweight as mediators.

Method

Data were drawn from Waves 2 (11th grade) to 7 (4 years after high school) of the NEXT Generation Health Study, a national longitudinal cohort study of US adolescents (n = 1946; 6.3% sexual minorities).

Results

There were no significant sexual orientation disparities in sleep duration, trouble falling asleep, troub

SUBMITTER: Luk JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853407 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature