Abstract
Objectives
To investigate whether sleep duration is associated with adolescent handgun carrying
behaviors.
Design
The Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (FYSAS) is a cross-sectional study of adolescents.
Setting
The state of Florida.
Participants
Middle school and high school students (n = 42,182) attending public schools in 2018.
Methods
Dichotomous measures of general handgun carrying and taking a handgun to school within
the past 12 months were modeled as dependent variables. Self-reports of hours slept
on an average school night were used to construct multiple indicators of sleep duration
(ordinal, dichotomous, and hourly dummy variable series) to predict general handgun
carrying and taking a handgun to school in logistic regression models when accounting
for several covariates.
Results
Adjusting for model covariates, youth who reported sleeping four or fewer hours at
night had 40% greater odds of general handgun carrying than youth who reported sleeping
eight or more hours. Likewise, youth who reported sleeping four or fewer hours at
night had 85% greater odds of taking a handgun to school than youth who reported sleeping
eight or more hours. Youth who reported sleeping five, six, or seven hours were no
more likely to report handgun-carrying behaviors than youth who reported sleeping
eight or more hours.
Conclusions
Among youth in Florida, severe deficits in sleep are associated with general handgun
carrying as well as taking a handgun to school. More modest sleep deficits are not
associated with these behaviors.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: January 13, 2020
Accepted:
November 23,
2019
Received in revised form:
November 20,
2019
Received:
October 1,
2019
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