Racial disparities in sleep health between Black and White young adults: The role of neighborhood safety in childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Black adults in the United States have shorter sleep durations and poorer sleep efficiency relative to White adults, yet reasons for these disparities are not well explicated. The objective of this study was to examine neighborhood safety in childhood as a mediator of subsequent racial disparities in sleep.

Methods

Data were from Black and White young adults attending a large, predominantly White university in the Southeastern United States (N = 263; 52% Black, 53% female; Mean age = 19.21 years, SD = 1.01). Sleep parameters were assessed from eight nights of wrist actigraphy (time in bed, sleep duration, and efficiency) and an established self-report measure of daytime sleepiness. Residential histories from birth through age 18 were documented, and retrospective

SUBMITTER: Fuller-Rowell TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8096683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature