Sleep Difficulties among Mexican Adolescents: Subjective and Objective Assessments of Sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Objective/background

Self-reported sleep difficulties, such as insomnia symptoms, have been reported among adolescents. Yet, studies of their prevalence and correlates are scarce among Latin Americans. This study sought (1) to describe associations between sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with self-reported sleep difficulties and (2) to examine associations between self-reported sleep difficulties and actigraphy-based sleep.

Participants

Participants included 477 Mexican adolescents from the ELEMENT cohort.

Methods

Over 7 days, self-reported sleep measures (hard time falling asleep, overall sleep difficulties, and specific types of sleep difficulties) were obtained from daily sleep diaries. Actigraphy-based sleep measures (duration, i.e. sleep onset to morning w

SUBMITTER: Zamora AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8589870 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature