Neighborhood predictors of short sleep duration and bedtime irregularity among children in the United States: results from the 2019-2020 National Survey of Children's Health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental factors may contribute to short sleep duration and irregular bedtime in children. Neighborhood factors and children's sleep duration and bedtime regularity remain a less investigated area. The aim of this study was to investigate the national and state-level proportions of children with short sleep duration and irregular bedtime and their neighborhood predictors.

Methods

A total of 67,598 children whose parents completed the National Survey of Children's Health in 2019-2020 were included in the analysis. Survey-weighted Poisson regression was used to explore the neighborhood predictors of children's short sleep duration and irregular bedtime.

Results

The prevalence of short sleep duration and irregular bedtime among children in the United Stat

SUBMITTER: Dai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9982789 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature