Role of Sleep Duration in the Association Between Socioecological Protective Factors and Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of sleep duration and socioecological protective factors with patterns of adolescent risk behaviors in Fairfax County, VA-one of the largest public school districts in the United States.

Methods

A total of 21,360 and 20,330 students in 10th and 12th grades who completed the Youth Risk Behavior Survey were included in this cross-sectional analysis. Sleep duration was measured by self-report of the average number of hours of sleep on a school night. Ten socioecological protective factors included peer-individual, family, school, and community domains. Latent class analysis was used to classify 7 risk behaviors (alcohol use, cigarette use, illicit drug use, inappropriate prescription drug use, risky sexual beha

SUBMITTER: Ordway MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007325 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb/Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature