Association between sleep-wake habits and use of health care services of middle-aged and elderly adults in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relationship between sleep-wake habits and the use of health care services.

Results

The proportions of the participants who were "early to bed" and "late to bed" were 48.7% and 51.3%, respectively. In the full sample, compared with those who were early to bed and early to rise, participants who went to bed late were more likely to report physician visits (late to bed and early to rise: OR = 1.13, 95% CI: 1.08-1.19, late to bed and late to rise: OR = 1.27, 95% CI: 1.18-1.38, respectively). We found no significant association between sleep-wake habits and the number of hospitalization.

Conclusions

Those middle-aged and elderly people who stayed up late and got up late are more likely to visit the doctors than those who went to bed early and got

SUBMITTER: Ye B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7066913 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature