Time spent outdoors and sleep normality: A preliminary investigation.

ABSTRACT: Sleep deficiency is associated with health risks, and time outdoors is related to health benefits. This study assessed time outdoors and its association with sleep normality. As part of a health study in Louisville, Kentucky, 735 participants completed questionnaires on their health status, behaviors, neighborhoods, and demographics in 2018-2019. The measures included information on sleep, time outdoors, and mental and physical health. Participant characteristics were assessed by dichotomized sleep normality (N=728), and logistic regression (N=709) examined potential associations between time outdoors and sleep. As time spent outdoors increased from ≤4 hours to >4 - ≤8 hours (OR=1.04; 95% CI: 0.65-1.64) and >8 - ≤12 hours (OR=1.17; 95% CI: 0.63-2.17), odds of normal sleep increased; howeve

SUBMITTER: Wood LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8411876 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature