Emergence of racial/ethnic differences in infant sleep duration in the first six months of life.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Examine the emergence of differences in sleep duration between infants from different racial/ethnic backgrounds and extent to which differences are explained by socioeconomic status (SES) and sleep continuity.

Methods

Sleep duration and continuity (number of night wakings and longest nighttime stretch of sleep) were assessed for 394 infants in the Rise & Sleep Health in Infancy & Early Childhood (SHINE) birth cohort at one- and six-months using the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ). Multivariable regression was used to estimate associations of race/ethnicity with sleep duration adjusting for individual-level covariates, SES, and sleep continuity.

Results

The sample was 40% non-Hispanic white, 33% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 15% Asian. Mean (SD) durations

SUBMITTER: Ash T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041110 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature