Abstract
Objective
To examine the association of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) with sleep duration
among a large cohort of Black and white men and women in the United States.
Methods
We used data from the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS, N = 75,248). Neighborhood
SES was based on census data and sleep duration was measured by self-report. Multinomial
logistic regression analysis was performed to assess the association between neighborhood
SES and short (<7 hours) and long (≥9 hours) sleep in the overall sample and according
to race–sex subgroups.
Results
In the total sample, when compared with the highest quintile of neighborhood SES,
the lowest quintile was associated with higher odds of both short (adjusted ORQ5 vs. Q1 [95% CI], 1.10 [1.03, 1.17]) and long sleep (1.37 [1.24, 1.52]). In race–sex specific
analysis, the association between lower neighborhood SES and short sleep was only
observed among white women (1.21 [1.05, 1.40]), but not in other subgroups. On the
other hand, the association between lower neighborhood SES and long sleep duration
was primarily observed among Black women (1.31 [1.06, 1.60]).
Conclusions
The association between neighborhood SES and sleep duration varied among race-and-sex
subgroups. These findings provide new evidence on the importance of considering individual
sociodemographic characteristics in understanding the potential effects of neighborhood
socioeconomic context on sleep health.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 10, 2023
Accepted:
January 30,
2023
Received in revised form:
December 19,
2022
Received:
April 7,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Corrected ProofIdentification
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