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Fuller-Rowell TE, Zeringue MM, Saini EK, Yip T, El-Sheikh M. Do Sleep Problems Exacerbate the Mental Health Consequences of Discrimination Among Adults? Psychosom Med 2024; 86:324-333. [PMID: 38588054 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVE An emerging literature suggests that sleep may play an important role in moderating the association between discrimination and mental health problems among adolescents. However, few if any studies have considered this topic among adults. Addressing this knowledge gap, the current study examined multiple sleep parameters as moderating variables in the association between discrimination and mental health problems among adults. METHODS Participants were 874 adults residing in small towns and semirural contexts within the Southeastern region of the United States ( Mage = 41 years, SD = 7; 57% female; 31% Black, 69% White; 52% income-to-needs < 2). Sleep duration and night-to-night variability in duration were assessed using wrist actigraphy. Established self-report measures were used to assess global sleep problems, experiences of discrimination, and mental health problems (anxiety, depression, and externalizing symptoms). RESULTS Experiences of discrimination were associated with more depression, anxiety, and externalizing problems. Two out of three sleep parameters were found to moderate the effects of discrimination on mental health. The association between discrimination and externalizing problems (but not anxiety or depression) was attenuated among those with less night-to-night variability in sleep duration. The associations between discrimination and anxiety and externalizing problems (but not depression) were attenuated among those with fewer global sleep problems. Less variability in sleep duration and fewer global sleep problems were also directly associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety, and externalizing problems. CONCLUSIONS Greater consistency in sleep duration from night-to-night, and fewer overall sleep problems appear to mitigate risk of mental health problems among adults, particularly in contexts where discrimination is prevalent.
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- Thomas E Fuller-Rowell
- From the Department of Human Development and Family Science (Fuller-Rowell, El-Sheikh), Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; Department of Psychology (Zeringue), Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Saini), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; and Department of Psychology (Yip), Fordham University, Bronx, New York
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Rollin FG, Washington C, George M. Residual confounding and misattribution of risk in sleep inequities. Sleep Med 2024; 117:220. [PMID: 38342719 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2024.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/13/2024]
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- Francois G Rollin
- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Tapia AL, Wallace ML, Hasler BP, Holmes J, Pedersen SL. Effect of daily discrimination on naturalistic sleep health features in young adults. Health Psychol 2024; 43:298-309. [PMID: 38190204 PMCID: PMC10939866 DOI: 10.1037/hea0001359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Racial inequities in sleep health are well documented and may be partially attributable to discrimination experiences. However, the effects of acute discrimination experiences on same-night sleep health are understudied. We quantified naturalistic discrimination experiences captured using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and examined whether reporting discrimination on a given day predicted sleep health that night. METHOD Participants completed baseline assessments and a 17-day EMA protocol, with text prompts delivered four times daily to collect discrimination experiences. Seven different daily sleep characteristics were ascertained each morning. Discrimination reasons (e.g., because of my racial identity) were reported by participants and categorized into any, racial, or nonracial discrimination. Outcomes included the seven sleep diary characteristics. We fit generalized linear mixed effects models for each sleep outcome and discrimination category, controlling for key covariates. RESULTS The analytic sample included 116 self-identified Black and White individuals (48% Black, 71% assigned female at birth, average age = 24.5 years). Among Black participants, race-based discrimination was associated with a 0.5-hr reduction in total sleep time (TST). Among White individuals, nonracial discrimination was associated with a 0.6-hr reduction in TST, an earlier sleep offset, and reduced sleep efficiency (partly attributable to more nighttime awakenings). CONCLUSIONS Young adults may sleep worse on nights after experiencing discrimination, and different types of discrimination affect different sleep outcomes for Black and White individuals. Future studies may consider developing treatments that account for different sleep vulnerabilities for people experiencing discrimination on a given day. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
- Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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Kim Y, Beale AM, Rasmussen HF, Kazmierski KFM, Margolin G. Anti-Black violence, discrimination, and sleep difficulties amongst racially diverse Americans: The aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Soc Sci Med 2024; 340:116410. [PMID: 38016308 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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RATIONALE Following the murders of George Floyd and other Black Americans during the summer of 2020, there was unprecedented exposure to media-disseminated depictions of anti-Black violence. Little is known about the impact of this widespread form of vicarious racism that was pervasive during that historic time. OBJECTIVE The present study applies the concept of vicarious racism to study this secondary exposure to anti-Black violence. We investigated negative impacts of anti-Black violence (NIAV) and personal experiences with discrimination in association with sleep difficulties, a critical intermediary health process. METHODS Racially diverse Americans (N = 487) were recruited to participate in a cross-sectional study using an online survey given between December 11, 2020 and February 11, 2021. RESULTS Black participants endorsed greater NIAV than Asian, Latinx, and White participants. Moreover, Black, Asian, and Latinx participants reported greater direct discrimination than White participants. NIAV and direct discrimination were each associated with more sleep difficulties. Although associations between NIAV and sleep difficulties did not vary by race, race moderated the association between direct discrimination and sleep difficulties. In addition, direct discrimination moderated the association between NIAV and sleep difficulties in an unanticipated direction: the link between NIAV and sleep difficulties was weaker for those experiencing more direct discrimination. CONCLUSION Findings suggest that anti-Black violence and police brutality not only impact direct victims but have widespread vicarious impacts on racially diverse Americans, and highlight that vicarious anti-Black racism and discrimination are important issues of public health.
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- Yehsong Kim
- University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave, SGM 501, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
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- University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave, SGM 501, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
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- University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave, SGM 501, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
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- University of California, Irvine, 4201 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
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- University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave, SGM 501, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
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Dautovich ND, Reid MP, Ghose SM, Kim G, Tighe CA, Shoji KD, Kliewer W. A longitudinal examination of psychosocial mechanisms linking discrimination with objective and subjective sleep. Sleep Health 2023; 9:654-661. [PMID: 37482456 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Although chronic discrimination negatively impacts sleep, the cross-sectional nature of most research limits the understanding of how changes in discrimination over time are associated with sleep health. Therefore, the aims of this study were to explore the: (1) longitudinal association between daily discrimination and subjective and objective sleep; (2) mediating roles of anxiety and social well-being; and (3) moderating role of change in discrimination over time. METHODS An archival analysis was completed using data from the Midlife in the United States study across 3 timepoints. Participants were primarily female-identifying, white, and college-educated. Measures included Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (N = 958), sleep diaries (N = 307), and actigraphy (N = 304). Daily discrimination, the Social Well-Being Scale, and the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire were also administered. Moderated parallel mediations were performed using the PROCESS macro controlling for depressive symptoms. RESULTS More discrimination at time 1 was associated with worse global sleep quality (b = 0.10 and p = .001) and daily sleep quality (b = 0.03 and p = .02) and worse objective sleep-onset latency (b = 0.93 and p = .02), wake after sleep onset (b = 1.09 and p = .002), and sleep efficiency (b = -0.52 and p < .001) at time 3. Social well-being mediated the associations between discrimination and subjective global sleep quality 95% CI [0.00, 0.03] and daily sleep quality 95% CI [0.00, 0.01] and objective TST 95% CI [0.00, 0.96] when discrimination was increasing or chronic. Anxiety mediated the discrimination-global sleep quality association regardless of changes in discrimination. CONCLUSIONS Discrimination showed durable associations with a broad array of sleep outcomes across a 10-year period. Anxiety and social well-being linked discrimination to subjective sleep outcomes, illustrating the importance of psychosocial well-being for sleep health in those experiencing discrimination.
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- Natalie D Dautovich
- Psychology Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
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- Psychology Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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- Psychology Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- VISN 4 Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Eastern Colorado Health Care System - Mental Health Service, Kerrville VA CLC, Kerrville, Texas, USA
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- Psychology Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Ju S, Cho SS, Kim JI, Ryu H, Kim H. Association between discrimination in the workplace and insomnia symptoms. Ann Occup Environ Med 2023; 35:e25. [PMID: 37614338 PMCID: PMC10442583 DOI: 10.35371/aoem.2023.35.e25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023] Open
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Background In Korea, little research has focused on the relationship between discrimination in the workplace and sleep health. Thus, this study aims to investigate the association between such discriminatory experiences and insomnia, a common sleep disorder, using Korean employees' data. Methods This study used data from the 6th Korea Working Conditions Survey. Discrimination experiences due to age, ethnic background, nationality, race, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, educational level, hometown, and employment status were investigated. The Minimal Insomnia Symptom Scale estimated insomnia symptoms. The association between discrimination experience and insomnia symptoms were analyzed using survey-weighted logistic regression analysis. Results Based on experiences of discrimination over the past 12 months, insomnia symptoms were associated with discrimination experience due to religion (odds ratio [OR]: 3.70; 95% confidential interval [CI]: 1.58-8.69), sex (OR: 2.51; 95% CI: 1.87-3.37), age (OR: 2.30; 95% CI: 1.88-2.81), hometown (OR: 2.07; 95% CI: 1.44-2.97), employment status (OR: 1.69; 95% CI: 1.37-2.10), and educational level (OR: 1.67; 95% CI: 1.31-2.14). Furthermore, the prevalence of insomnia symptoms increased with the number of discrimination experiences. Conclusions In this study, discrimination experiences due to religion, sex, age, hometown, employment status, and educational level were significantly associated with insomnia symptoms. Furthermore, as the number of discrimination experiences increased, so did the prevalence of insomnia. Preventing workplace discrimination may improve workers' sleep health.
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- Suhwan Ju
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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Wang RZ, Jamal A, Wang Z, Dan S, Srinivasan M, Kim G, Long J, Palaniappan L, Singh J, Eggert LE. Toward precision sleep medicine: variations in sleep outcomes among disaggregated Asian Americans in the National Health Interview Survey (2006-2018). J Clin Sleep Med 2023; 19:1259-1270. [PMID: 36883375 PMCID: PMC10315592 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.10558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Asian Americans report higher rates of insufficient sleep than non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). It is unclear how sleep outcomes differ among disaggregated Asian subgroups. METHODS The National Health Interview Survey (2006-2018) was used to analyze self-reported sleep duration and quality measures for Asian American subgroups (Chinese [n = 11,056], Asian Indian [n = 11,249], Filipino [n = 13,211], and other Asians [n = 21,767]). Outcomes included hours of sleep per day, the number of days reporting trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, waking up rested, and taking sleep medication in the past week. Subsetted multivariate logistic regression was used to assess factors impacting sleep outcomes by ethnicity. RESULTS 29.2% of NHWs, 26.4% of Chinese, 24.5% of Asian Indians, and 38.4% of Filipinos reported insufficient sleep duration. Filipinos were less likely to report sufficient sleep duration (odds ratio 0.55, [confidence interval 95% 0.50-0.59]) and more likely to report trouble falling asleep (1.16 [1.01-1.33]) than NHWs. Chinese and Asian Indians had less trouble staying asleep (0.67 [0.58-0.77], 0.51 [0.44-0.59]) and falling asleep (0.77 [0.66-0.89], 0.72, [0.62-0.82]) than NHWs, and Asian Indians were more likely to wake feeling well rested (1.66 [1.48-1.87]). All Asian subgroups were less likely to report using sleep medications than NHWs. Foreign-born status had a negative association with sufficient sleep duration in Filipinos but a positive association in Asian Indians and Chinese. CONCLUSIONS Filipinos report the highest burden of poor sleep outcomes, and Asian Indians report significantly better sleep outcomes. These findings highlight the importance of disaggregating Asian ethnic subgroups to address their health needs. CITATION Wang RZ, Jamal A, Wang Z, et al. Toward precision sleep medicine: variations in sleep outcomes among disaggregated Asian Americans in the National Health Interview Survey (2006-2018). J Clin Sleep Med. 2023;19(7):1259-1270.
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- Ryan Z. Wang
- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Department of BioSciences, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Department of Mathematics, Statistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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Nyarko SH, Luo L, Schlundt DG, Xiao Q. Cross-sectional association between neighborhood socioeconomic status and sleep duration among Black and white men and women: The Southern Community Cohort Study. Sleep Health 2023; 9:277-282. [PMID: 37045662 PMCID: PMC10837766 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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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.
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- Samuel H Nyarko
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA.
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- Department of Sociology and Criminology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA
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McKinnon II, Johnson DA, Murden RJ, Erving CL, Parker R, Van Dyke ME, Vaccarino V, Booker B, Moore RH, Lewis TT. Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women. Soc Sci Med 2023; 316:115623. [PMID: 36581549 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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RATIONALE Much of the research linking racism-related stressors to poor health has focused on fairly non-violent forms of racism that directly impact individuals under study. Exposure to particularly extreme and/or violent racist events are increasingly visible via smartphone recordings and social media, with consistent anecdotal reports of the effects of seeing and hearing about these events on sleep among minorities who racially identify with the victims. OBJECTIVE This study examines whether exposure to direct and vicarious racism-related events (RREs), including more extreme events, are associated with sleep quality. Additionally, we examine effects of less and more violent direct RREs and vicarious RREs witnessed in person and via social media. METHODS Among 422 African-American women, we assessed exposure to RREs using a modified version of the Race-Related Events Scale and assessed sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Linear regression analyses were used to model continuous global sleep. RESULTS Direct (β = 0.24 [95% CI: 0.13, 0.35]) RREs were associated with worse continuous global sleep quality scores in analyses adjusted for sociodemographics and risk factors for poor sleep. More violent direct RREs (β = 0.59 [95% CI: 0.30, 0.89]) had stronger associations with poor sleep quality than less violent direct RREs (β = 0.25 [95% CI: 0.11, 0.40]). Vicarious RREs overall (β = 0.04 [95% CI: 0.14, 0.21]) and those witnessed via social media (β = -0.07 [95% CI: 0.29, 0.14]) were not associated with global sleep quality; conversely, vicarious RREs witnessed in person were (β = 0.52 [95% CI: 0.21, 0.83]). CONCLUSION Extreme, direct experiences of racism, particularly those that are violent in nature, are associated with poor sleep quality. However, extreme vicarious experiences are not-- unless witnessed in person.
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- Izraelle I McKinnon
- Department of Epidemiology (I.I.M., D.A.J., M.E.V.D., V.V., T.T.L.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology (I.I.M., D.A.J., M.E.V.D., V.V., T.T.L.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics (R.J.M., R.P.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Vanderbilt University (C.L.E.), Department of Sociology, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, 201E Garland Hall, Nashville, TN, 37235-1811, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics (R.J.M., R.P.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology (I.I.M., D.A.J., M.E.V.D., V.V., T.T.L.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology (I.I.M., D.A.J., M.E.V.D., V.V., T.T.L.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA; From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (V.V.), Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology (I.I.M., D.A.J., M.E.V.D., V.V., T.T.L.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (R.H.M), Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology (I.I.M., D.A.J., M.E.V.D., V.V., T.T.L.), Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
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Green T, Shipman J, Valrie C, Corona R, Kohlmann T, Valiani S, Hagiwara N. Discrimination and Health Among First-Generation Hispanic/Latinx Immigrants: the Roles of Sleep and Fatigue. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 2022; 9:2105-16. [PMID: 34606072 DOI: 10.1007/s40615-021-01149-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Revised: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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INTRODUCTION A growing literature documents the associations between discrimination and health. Emerging evidence suggests that among Hispanic/Latinx immigrants, discrimination leads to the deterioration of health outcomes over time. While sleep has been proposed as an important mediator of the relationship between discrimination and health, few studies have explicitly investigated this pathway, particularly among Hispanic/Latinx populations. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between racial/ethnic discrimination, sleep, and physical and mental health among Hispanic/Latinx immigrants in the USA. Data and Methods Using data from a parent study of first-generation Hispanic/Latinx immigrants in the southeastern USA, we conducted sequential mediation analyses using the bootstrapping method to investigate whether self-reported sleep duration, sleep quality, and fatigue mediate the relationship(s) between self-reported discrimination, as measured by the discrimination subscale of the Riverside Acculturative Stress Inventory, and self-reported physical and mental health. RESULTS Nocturnal awakenings, fatigue, and sleep quality were statistically significant sequential mediators of the relationship between discrimination and physical health (b = -.001, SE = .001, CI [-.0027, -.0001]); fatigue alone also mediated this relationship (b = -.01, SE = .01, CI [-.0279, -.0003]). Nocturnal awakenings, fatigue, and sleep quality were also significant sequential mediators of the relationship between discrimination and mental health (b = -.001, SE = .001, CI [-.0031, -.0001]). CONCLUSION Sleep and fatigue play an important role in linking discrimination and health among first-generation Hispanic/Latinx immigrants. The development and implementation of interventions that focus on reducing fatigue among this population could mitigate the effects of unfair treatment on health outcomes.
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Farmer HR, Slavish DC, Ruiz J, Dietch JR, Ruggero CJ, Messman BA, Kelly K, Kohut M, Taylor DJ. Racial/ethnic variations in inflammatory markers: exploring the role of sleep duration and sleep efficiency. J Behav Med 2022; 45:855-867. [PMID: 36029411 PMCID: PMC10062430 DOI: 10.1007/s10865-022-00357-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Individuals from minoritized racial/ethnic groups have higher levels of circulating inflammatory markers. However, the mechanisms underlying these differences remain understudied. The objective of this study was to examine racial/ethnic variations in multiple markers of inflammation and whether impaired sleep contributes to these racial/ethnic differences. Nurses from two regional hospitals in Texas (n = 377; 71.62% White; 6.90% Black; 11.14% Hispanic, 10.34% Asian; mean age = 39.46; 91.78% female) completed seven days of sleep diaries and actigraphy to assess mean and variability in total sleep time (TST) and sleep efficiency (SE). On day 7, blood was drawn to assess 4 inflammatory markers: C-reactive protein (CRP), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). Results from regression models showed differences in inflammatory markers by race/ethnicity, adjusting for age and gender. The associations between sleep parameters and inflammatory markers also varied by race/ethnicity. Among White nurses, lower mean and greater variability in actigraphy-determined TST and greater variability in diary-determined TST were associated with higher levels of IL-6. Among Black nurses, lower mean diary-determined SE was associated with higher levels of IL-6 and IL-1β. Among Hispanic nurses, greater diary-determined mean TST was associated with higher CRP. Among Asian nurses, greater intraindividual variability in actigraphy-determined SE was associated with lower CRP. Among nurses, we did not find racial/ethnic disparities in levels of inflammation. However, analyses revealed differential relationships between sleep and inflammatory markers by race/ethnicity. Results highlight the importance of using a within-group approach to understand predictors of inflammatory markers.
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- Heather R Farmer
- Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Psychological Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Otto MW, Lubin RE, Rosenfield D, Taylor DJ, Birk JL, Espie CA, Shechter A, Edmondson D, Shepherd JM, Zvolensky MJ. The association between race- and ethnicity-related stressors and sleep: the role of rumination and anxiety sensitivity. Sleep 2022; 45:zsac117. [PMID: 35639820 PMCID: PMC9548665 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate the association between psychosocial factors and self-reported sleep duration and two indices of sleep quality in a racially and ethnically diverse sample of adults. We investigated the relations between both rumination and anxiety sensitivity with these self-reported sleep outcomes. We also examined rumination and anxiety sensitivity as moderators of three race- and ethnicity-related stressors: discrimination, acculturative stress, and socioeconomic status. METHODS In a cross-sectional design, we assessed 1326 adults (ages 18-48 years) selected for self-reported racial and ethnic minority status. Regression analyses were used to examine the associations between demographic, social/environmental stressors, depression severity, rumination, and anxiety sensitivity and three sleep outcomes: sleep duration, sleep quality subscale, and global sleep quality. RESULTS Our findings supported the hypothesized role of rumination as an amplification factor for the influence of race- and ethnicity-related stressors on sleep duration and quality. Rumination was associated with all three sleep outcomes (sleep duration, sleep quality subscale, and global sleep quality) and was a moderator of the associations between discrimination and all 3 sleep outcomes. Anxiety sensitivity was not consistently associated with these sleep outcomes. Depression symptoms did not account for these findings. CONCLUSIONS If confirmed in longitudinal study, our findings introduce a potentially important treatment target-rumination-for addressing sleep disparities in prevention or intervention models. Rumination appears to amplify the negative sleep consequences of race- and ethnicity-related stressors and is a modifiable treatment target.
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- Michael W Otto
- Corresponding author. Michael W. Otto, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, 900E Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215. E-mail:
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Sleep Center of Excellence, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX,USA
- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX,USA
- HEALTH Institute, University of Houston, Houston, TX,USA
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Lucchini M, O’Brien LM, Kahn LG, Brennan PA, Glazer Baron K, Knapp EA, Lugo-Candelas C, Shuffrey L, Dunietz GL, Zhu Y, Wright RJ, Wright RO, Duarte C, Karagas MR, Ngai P, O’Connor TG, Herbstman JB, Dioni S, Singh AM, Alcantara C, Fifer WP, Elliott AJ. Racial/ethnic disparities in subjective sleep duration, sleep quality, and sleep disturbances during pregnancy: an ECHO study. Sleep 2022; 45:zsac075. [PMID: 35724979 PMCID: PMC9453625 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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In the United States, racial/ethnic minoritized groups experience worse sleep than non-Hispanic Whites (nHW), but less is known about pregnant people. This is a key consideration since poor sleep during pregnancy is common and associated with increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. This study reports the prevalence of subjective sleep measures in a multi-racial/ethnic pregnant population from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. Participants' self-reported race and ethnicity were grouped into: nHW, non-Hispanic Black/African American (nHB/AA), Hispanic, non-Hispanic Asian (nHA). Analyses examined trimester-specific (first (T1), second (T2), third (T3)) nocturnal sleep duration, quality, and disturbances (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and ECHO maternal sleep health questionnaire). Linear or multinomial regressions estimated the associations between race/ethnicity and each sleep domain by trimester, controlling for body mass index and age, with nHW as reference group. We repeated analyses within maternal education strata. nHB/AA participants reported shorter sleep duration (T2: β = -0.55 [-0.80,-0.31]; T3: β = -0.65 [-0.99,-0.31]) and more sleep disturbances (T2: β = 1.92 [1.09,2.75]; T3: β = 1.41 [0.09,2.74]). Hispanic participants reported longer sleep duration (T1: β = 0.22 [0.00004,0.44]; T2: β = 0.61 [0.47,0.76]; T3: β = 0.46 [0.22,0.70]), better sleep quality (Reference group: Very good. Fairly good T1: OR = 0.48 [0.32,0.73], T2: OR = 0.36 [0.26,0.48], T3: OR = 0.31 [0.18,0.52]. Fairly bad T1: OR = 0.27 [0.16,0.44], T2: OR = 0.46 [0.31, 0.67], T3: OR = 0.31 [0.17,0.55]), and fewer sleep disturbances (T2: β = -0.5 [-1.0,-0.12]; T3: β = -1.21 [-2.07,-0.35]). Differences persisted within the high-SES subsample. Given the stark racial/ethnic disparities in perinatal outcomes and their associations with sleep health, further research is warranted to investigate the determinants of these disparities.
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- Maristella Lucchini
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, and Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Hackensack, NJ, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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Danyluck C, Blair IV, Manson SM, Laudenslager ML, Daugherty SL, Brondolo E. Discrimination and Sleep Impairment in American Indians and Alaska Natives. Ann Behav Med 2022; 56:969-976. [PMID: 34864832 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaab097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Sleep impairment may be a key pathway through which discrimination undermines health. Links between discrimination and sleep in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have not been established. Further, it is unclear if such links might depend on the timing of discrimination or if socioeconomic status (SES) might buffer the impact of discrimination. PURPOSE To investigate associations between interpersonal discrimination and sleep impairment in urban AI/AN, for both lifetime and recent discrimination, and controlling for other life stressors. Education and income, indices of SES, were tested as potential moderators. METHODS A community sample of urban AI/AN (N = 303, 18-78 years old, 63% female) completed self-report measures of sleep impairment, lifetime and recent discrimination, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, other life stressors (childhood adversity and past year major events), and socio-demographic characteristics. RESULTS Lifetime discrimination was associated with impaired sleep in AI/AN after adjustment for socio-demographic characteristics, recent depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and other life stressors. Past-week discrimination was associated with sleep in unadjusted but not adjusted models. Education, but not income, was found to buffer the effects of both lifetime and past-week discrimination on sleep in adjusted models. CONCLUSION Lifetime discrimination uniquely accounts for sleep impairment and may be especially harmful in those with less education. These findings suggest targeting interventions to those most in need. Limitations include the cross-sectional nature of the data. Longitudinal and qualitative work is needed to understand how education may buffer the effects of discrimination on sleep and perhaps other health problems in AI/AN.
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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McKinnon II, Johnson DA, Murden RJ, Erving CL, Parker R, Van Dyke ME, Vaccarino V, Booker B, Moore RH, Lewis TT. Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women. Soc Sci Med 2022; 310:115269. [PMID: 36041238 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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RATIONALE Much of the research linking racism-related stressors to poor health has focused on fairly non-violent forms of racism that directly impact individuals under study. Exposure to particularly extreme and/or violent racist events are increasingly visible via smartphone recordings and social media, with consistent anecdotal reports of the effects of seeing and hearing about these events on sleep among minorities who racially identify with the victims. OBJECTIVE This study examines whether exposure to direct and vicarious racism-related events (RREs), including more extreme events, are associated with sleep quality. Additionally, we examine effects of less and more violent direct RREs and vicarious RREs witnessed in person and via social media. METHODS Among 422 African-American women, we assessed exposure to RREs using a modified version of the Race-Related Events Scale and assessed sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Linear regression analyses were used to model continuous global sleep. RESULTS Direct (β = 0.24 [95% CI: 0.13, 0.35]) RREs were associated with worse continuous global sleep quality scores in analyses adjusted for sociodemographics and risk factors for poor sleep. More violent direct RREs (β = 0.59 [95% CI: 0.30, 0.89]) had stronger associations with poor sleep quality than less violent direct RREs (β = 0.25 [95% CI: 0.11, 0.40]). Vicarious RREs overall (β = 0.04 [95% CI: 0.14, 0.21]) and those witnessed via social media (β = -0.07 [95% CI: 0.29, 0.14]) were not associated with global sleep quality; conversely, vicarious RREs witnessed in person were (β = 0.52 [95% CI: 0.21, 0.83]). CONCLUSION Extreme, direct experiences of racism, particularly those that are violent in nature, are associated with poor sleep quality. However, extreme vicarious experiences are not-- unless witnessed in person.
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Harris PE, Gordon AM, Dover TL, Small PA, Collins NL, Major B. Sleep, Emotions, and Sense of Belonging: A Daily Experience Study. Affect Sci 2022; 3:295-306. [PMID: 36046008 PMCID: PMC9382960 DOI: 10.1007/s42761-021-00088-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Sleep has strong influences on affective and social experiences. However, less is known about the reciprocal effects of sleep, affect, and social experiences at a daily level, and little work has considered racial/ethnic minorities at high risk for social disconnection and discrimination. A 7-day daily experience study assessed the bidirectional relationships between daily sleep quality, affect, social experiences, and overall well-being among a sample of Latinx undergraduates (N = 109). Each morning, participants reported on their previous night's sleep. Each evening, they reported their positive and negative affect, experiences of belonging and unfair treatment, and overall well-being that day. Results indicate that, at a daily level, sleep quality predicts next-day affect, belonging, and well-being. Reciprocally, only daily well-being predicts sleep quality. Findings highlight sleep as a potentially powerful antecedent of affective and social experiences likely to be particularly potent for underrepresented minority groups. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00088-0.
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- Paige E. Harris
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660 USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, OR USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660 USA
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Smith IA, Griffiths A. Microaggressions, Everyday Discrimination, Workplace Incivilities, and Other Subtle Slights at Work: A Meta-Synthesis. Human Resource Development Review 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/15344843221098756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Subtle slights refer to a wide range of ambiguous negative interactions between people that may harm individual health, wellbeing and performance at work. This literature review aims to help human resource development practitioners and researchers understand the similarities and distinguishing features of disparate bodies of subtle slight research. A systematic review yielded 338 papers, the majority of which concerned three constructs: microaggressions, everyday discrimination and workplace incivilities. Meta-synthesis revealed that all three categories related to subtle, low-intensity interactions but differed in their descriptions of the type of perceived violation. The most common demographic factors under scrutiny were race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and age. We propose a framework that involves four dimensions common to all subtle slights: type of violation, intensity, duration and intent (VIDI). This framework may help future efforts to understand, monitor and address this issue of contemporary concern in the workplace.
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- Iain A. Smith
- Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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Park C, Larsen B, Kwon S, Xia Y, Dickson VV, Kim SS, Garcia-dia MJ, Reynolds HR, Spruill TM. Acculturation, Discrimination and 24-h Activity in Asian American Immigrant Women. J Immigr Minor Health. [DOI: 10.1007/s10903-022-01361-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ethnic/racial discrimination is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes, and this study considered sleep disturbance as a mediating pathway. Employing a combination of daily diary and biannual surveys, multilevel structural equation models estimated the indirect effects of sleep/wake concerns on negative, anxious, and positive mood, rumination, and somatic symptoms. In a sample of 350 urban Asian (74% Chinese, 8% Korean, 4% Indian, 1% Filipinx, 1% Vietnamese, and 12% other), Black, and Latinx (25% Dominican, 24% South American, 22% Mexican, 15% Puerto Rican, 5% Central American, and 9% other) youth (M = 14.27 years, 69% female, 77% U.S. born, 76% monoethnic/racial, data collected from 2015 to 2018), there was evidence for sleep disturbances mediating the impact of ethnic/racial discrimination on adjustment. Nighttime disturbance, daytime dysfunction, and daytime sleepiness evidenced partial or full mediation for daily‐ and person‐level outcomes (υ = 0.1%–17.9%). Reciprocal associations between sleep disturbances and negative mood and rumination were also observed.
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Van Dyke ME, Kramer MR, Kershaw KN, Vaccarino V, Crawford ND, Lewis TT. Inconsistent Reporting of Discrimination Over Time Using the Experiences of Discrimination Scale: Potential Underestimation of Lifetime Burden. Am J Epidemiol 2022; 191:370-378. [PMID: 34017974 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwab151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Studies documenting self-reported experiences of discrimination over the life course have been limited. Such information could be important for informing longitudinal epidemiologic studies of discrimination and health. We characterized trends in self-reports of racial, socioeconomic status, and gender discrimination over time measured using the Experiences of Discrimination Scale, with a focus on whether individuals' reports of lifetime discrimination were consistent over time. Overall experiences of discrimination and the number of settings in which discrimination was reported in 1992, 2000, and 2010 were examined among 2,774 African-American and White adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Reports of "ever" experiencing discrimination decreased for all forms of discrimination across the 3 study visits. Approximately one-third (30%-41%) of the sample inconsistently reported ever experiencing any discrimination over time, which contributed to the observed decreases. Depending on the form of discrimination, inconsistent reporting patterns over time were more common among African-American, younger, less educated, and lower-income individuals and women-groups who are often most exposed to and severely impacted by the health effects of discrimination. Our findings highlight the possible underestimation of the lifetime burden of discrimination when utilizing the Experiences of Discrimination Scale to capture self-reports of discrimination over time.
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Harlow SD, Burnett-Bowie SAM, Greendale GA, Avis NE, Reeves AN, Richards TR, Lewis TT. Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White women: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Womens Midlife Health 2022; 8:3. [PMID: 35130984 PMCID: PMC8822825 DOI: 10.1186/s40695-022-00073-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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This paper reviews differences in the experience of the menopause transition and midlife health outcomes between Black and White women who participated in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a 25-year, longitudinal, multi-racial/ethnic cohort study. We identify health disparities, i.e., instances in which Black women's outcomes are less favorable than those of White women, and consider whether structural racism may underlie these disparities. Although SWAN did not explicitly assess structural racism, Black women in SWAN grew up during the Jim Crow era in the United States, during which time racism was legally sanctioned. We consider how we might gain insight into structural racism by examining proxy exposures such as socioeconomic characteristics, reports of everyday discrimination, and a range of life stressors, which likely reflect the longstanding, pervasive and persistent inequities that have roots in systemic racism in the US. Thus, this paper reviews the presence, magnitude, and longitudinal patterns of racial disparities observed in SWAN in six areas of women's health - menopause symptoms, sleep, mental health, health related quality of life, cardio-metabolic health, and physical function -and elucidates the contextual factors that are likely influencing these disparities. We review the strengths and weaknesses of SWAN's design and approach to analysis of racial disparities and use this as a springboard to offer recommendations for future cohort studies.
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- Siobán D Harlow
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, United States, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104-2029, USA.
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- Endocrine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
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Webb EK, Bird CM, deRoon-Cassini TA, Weis CN, Huggins AA, Fitzgerald JM, Miskovich T, Bennett K, Krukowski J, Torres L, Larson CL. Racial Discrimination and Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Salience Network Nodes in Trauma-Exposed Black Adults in the United States. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2144759. [PMID: 35072718 PMCID: PMC8787596 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.44759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Importance For Black US residents, experiences of racial discrimination are still pervasive and frequent. Recent empirical work has amplified the lived experiences and narratives of Black people and further documented the detrimental effects of racial discrimination on both mental and physical health; however, there is still a need for further research to uncover the mechanisms connecting experiences of racial discrimination with adverse health outcomes. Objective To examine neurobiological mechanisms that may offer novel insight into the association of racial discrimination with adverse health outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional study included 102 Black adults who had recently experienced a traumatic injury. In the acute aftermath of the trauma, participants underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scan. Individuals were recruited from the emergency department at a Midwestern level 1 trauma center in the United States between March 2016 and July 2020. Data were analyzed from February to May 2021. Exposures Self-reported lifetime exposure to racial discrimination, lifetime trauma exposure, annual household income, and current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were evaluated. Main Outcomes and Measures Seed-to-voxel analyses were conducted to examine the association of racial discrimination with connectivity of salience network nodes (ie, amygdala and anterior insula). Results A total of 102 individuals were included, with a mean (SD) age of 33 (10) years and 58 (57%) women. After adjusting for acute PTSD symptoms, annual household income, and lifetime trauma exposure, greater connectivity between the amygdala and thalamus was associated with greater exposure to discrimination (t(97) = 6.05; false discovery rate (FDR)-corrected P = .03). Similarly, racial discrimination was associated with greater connectivity between the insula and precuneus (t(97) = 4.32; FDR-corrected P = .02). Conclusions and Relevance These results add to the mounting literature that racial discrimination is associated with neural correlates of vigilance and hyperarousal. The study findings extend this theory by showing that this association is apparent even when accounting for socioeconomic position, lifetime trauma, and symptoms of psychological distress related to an acute trauma.
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- E. Kate Webb
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Division of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- Institute for Health and Equity, Department of Epidemiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Hill PL, Sin NL, Edmonds GW, Burrow AL. Associations Between Everyday Discrimination and Sleep: Tests of Moderation by Ethnicity and Sense of Purpose. Ann Behav Med 2021; 55:1246-1252. [PMID: 33760911 PMCID: PMC8601048 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaab012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Everyday discrimination holds pernicious effects across most aspects of health, including a pronounced stress response. However, work is needed on when discrimination predicts sleep outcomes, with respect to potential moderators of these associations. PURPOSE The current study sought to advance the past literature by examining the associations between everyday discrimination and sleep outcomes in an ethnically diverse sample, allowing tests of moderation by ethnic group. We also examined the role of sense of purpose, a potential resilience factor, as another moderator. METHODS Participants in the Hawaii Longitudinal Study of Personality and Health (n = 758; 52.8% female; mage: 60 years, sd = 2.03) completed assessments for everyday discrimination, sleep duration, daytime dysfunction due to sleep, sleep quality, and sense of purpose. RESULTS In the full sample, everyday discrimination was negatively associated with sleep duration, sleep quality, and sense of purpose, while positively associated with daytime dysfunction due to sleep. The associations were similar in magnitude across ethnic groups (Native Hawaiian, White/Caucasian, Japanese/Japanese-American), and were not moderated by sense of purpose, a potential resilience factor. CONCLUSIONS The ill-effects on health due to everyday discrimination may operate in part on its role in disrupting sleep, an issue that appears to similarly impact several groups. The current research extends these findings to underrepresented groups in the discrimination and sleep literature. Future research is needed to better disentangle the day-to-day associations between sleep and discrimination, and identify which sources of discrimination may be most problematic.
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- Patrick L Hill
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Pengpid S, Peltzer K. Perceived discrimination and health outcomes among middle-aged and older adults in India: results of a national survey in 2017-2018. BMC Geriatr 2021; 21:559. [PMID: 34663217 PMCID: PMC8522245 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-021-02508-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The study aimed to estimate the associations between perceived discrimination and poor physical health, poor mental health, and health risk behaviours in middle-aged and older adults in a national population survey in India. METHODS The sample included 72,262 middle-aged and older adults from a cross-sectional national community dwelling survey in India in 2017-2018. RESULTS The prevalence of moderate (1-2 types) perceived discrimination was 10.7%, and high (3-6 types) perceived discrimination was 6.6%. In the final adjusted logistic, linear or Poisson regression analyses, moderate and/or high perceived discrimination was significantly positively associated with poor mental health (low life satisfaction, poor cognitive functioning, insomnia symptoms, and depressive symptoms), poor physical health (pain conditions count, and functional limitations), and health risk behaviours (heavy episodic drinking and physical inactivity). CONCLUSION Perceived discrimination is associated with poor mental health, poor physical health, and health risk behaviour, emphasising the need to consider perceived discrimination in various physical and mental health contexts.
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- Supa Pengpid
- ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
- Department of Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, Turfloop, Polokwane, South Africa
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- Department of Research Administration and Development, University of Limpopo, Turfloop, Polokwane, South Africa.
- Department of Psychology, College of Medical and Health Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
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Yip T, Feng Y, Fowle J, Fisher CB. Sleep disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic: An investigation of AIAN, Asian, Black, Latinx, and White young adults. Sleep Health 2021; 7:459-467. [PMID: 34284964 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2021.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2020] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study investigates race-related disparities in sleep duration and quality among diverse young adults during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. DESIGN & SETTING Online cross-sectional study of young adults in the United States in April 2020. PARTICIPANTS About 547 American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN), Asian, Black, Latinx, and White young adults ages 18-25 years. MEASUREMENTS Participants completed measures of sleep duration and quality, coronavirus victimization distress, depression, age, sex/gender, employment status, essential worker status, student status, residential region, socioeconomic status, concerns about contracting coronavirus and CDC health risks. RESULTS Black young adults reported the largest disparity in sleep duration and quality. For sleep duration, AIAN, Asian, White, and Latinx young adults reported approximately one additional hour of sleep compared to Black respondents. Mediation analyses suggest that disparities in sleep duration between Asian and Black young adults may be explained by the higher likelihood of Black respondents being essential workers. For sleep quality, Latinx, White, AIAN, and Asian young adults reported higher levels than Black respondents. Including coronavirus victimization distress as an intervening pathway decreased the effect for Asian and White respondents on sleep quality, suggesting that coronavirus victimization distress partially explains Black and Asian, as well as Black and White differences in sleep quality. CONCLUSIONS Black young adults reported the shortest sleep duration and lowest levels of sleep quality relative to AIAN, Asian, Latinx and White peers. Interpersonal experiences of coronavirus victimization and structural inequities may partially explain disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Tiffany Yip
- Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA
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Johnson DA, Lewis TT, Guo N, Jackson CL, Sims M, Wilson JG, Diez Roux AV, Williams DR, Redline S. Associations between everyday discrimination and sleep quality and duration among African Americans over time in the Jackson Heart Study. Sleep 2021; 44:6312657. [PMID: 34197610 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES African-Americans have a high burden of poor sleep, yet, psychosocial determinants (e.g., discrimination) are understudied. We investigated longitudinal associations between everyday discrimination and sleep quality and duration among African-Americans (N=3404) in the Jackson Heart Study. METHODS At Exam 1 (2000-2004) and Exam 3 (2008-2013), participants completed the Everyday Discrimination Scale, rated their sleep quality (1=poor to 5=excellent), and self-reported hours of sleep. A subset of participants (N=762) underwent 7-day actigraphy to objectively assess sleep duration (Sleep Exam 2012-2016). Changes in discrimination were defined as low stable (reference), increasing, decreasing, and stable high. Within-person changes in sleep from Exam 1-to-3 were regressed on change in discrimination from Exam 1-to-3 while adjusting for age, sex, education, income, employment, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, social support and stress. RESULTS At Exam 1, the mean age was 54.1 (12.0) years; 64% were female, mean sleep quality was 3.0 (1.1) and 54% were short sleepers. The distribution of the discrimination change trajectories, were 54.1% low stable, 13.5% increasing, 14.6% decreasing, and 17.7% were high stable. Participants who were in the increasing (vs. stable low) discrimination group had greater decrease in sleep quality. There was no association between change in discrimination and change in sleep duration. Among Sleep Exam participants, higher discrimination was cross-sectionally associated with shorter self-reported sleep duration, independent of stress. CONCLUSION Discrimination is a unique stressor for African-Americans; thus, future research should identify interventions to reduce the burden of discrimination on sleep quality.
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- Dayna A Johnson
- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.,Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.,Intramural Program, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital.,Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Xie M, Yip T, Cham H, El-Sheikh M. The Impact of Daily Discrimination on Sleep/Wake Problem Trajectories Among Diverse Adolescents. Child Dev 2021; 92:e1061-e1074. [PMID: 34106461 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This study examines how everyday discrimination is associated with 6-day trajectories of sleep/wake problems, operationalized as sleep disturbance and daytime dysfunction, among 350 diverse adolescents (Mage = 14.27, SD = 0.61, 69% female; 22% African American, 41% Asian American, 37% Latinx; 24% multiethnic/racial; across participating schools, 72% of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch) in the Northeastern United States. Adolescents encountering discrimination experienced changes in sleep/wake problem trajectories (i.e., significant increases in same-day sleep/wake problems), whereas adolescents reporting no discrimination experienced no changes in trajectories (Cohen's ds = .51-.55). Multiethnic/racial (compared to monoethnic/racial) adolescents experiencing everyday discrimination reported greater same-day sleep/wake problems, yet steeper decreases in sleep/wake problems suggesting stronger impact coupled with faster return to baseline levels.
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Ahn S, Lobo JM, Logan JG, Kang H, Kwon Y, Sohn MW. A scoping review of racial/ethnic disparities in sleep. Sleep Med 2021; 81:169-179. [PMID: 33713923 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Despite remarkable achievements in ensuring health equity, racial/ethnic disparities in sleep still persist and are emerging as a major area of concern. Accumulating evidence has not yet been well characterized from a broad perspective. We conducted a scoping review of studies on sleep disparities by race/ethnicity to summarize characteristics of existing studies and identify evidence gaps. METHODS We searched PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases for studies of racial/ethnic disparities in sleep. Studies that met inclusion criteria were retrieved and organized in a data charting form by study design, sleep measuring methods, sleep features, and racial/ethnic comparisons. RESULTS One hundred sixteen studies were included in this review. Most studies focused on disparities between Whites and Blacks. Disproportionately fewer studies examined disparities for Hispanic, Asian, and other racial/ethnic groups. Self-reported sleep was most frequently used. Sleep duration, overall sleep quality, and sleep disordered breathing were frequently studied, whereas other features including sleep efficiency, latency, continuity, and architecture were understudied, particularly in racial minority groups in the US. Current study findings on racial/ethnic disparities in most of sleep features is mixed and inconclusive. CONCLUSIONS This review identified significant evidence gaps in racial/ethnic disparities research on sleep. Our results suggest a need for more studies examining diverse sleep features using standardized and robust measuring methods for more valid comparisons of sleep health in diverse race/ethnicity groups.
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- Soojung Ahn
- School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
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Williams PC, Krafty R, Alexander T, Davis Z, Gregory AV, Proby R, Troxel W, Coutts C. Greenspace redevelopment, pressure of displacement, and sleep quality among Black adults in Southwest Atlanta. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2021; 31:412-426. [PMID: 33714980 PMCID: PMC8134046 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-021-00313-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Little is known on how greenspace redevelopment-creating or improving existing parks and trails-targeted for low-income and/or majority Black neighborhoods could amplify existing social environmental stressors, increase residents' susceptibility to displacement, and impact their sleep quality. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between social environmental stressors associated with displacement and sleep quality among Black adults. METHODS Linear regression models were employed on survey data to investigate the association between social environmental stressors, independently and combined, on sleep quality among Black adults residing in block groups targeted for greenspace redevelopment (i.e., exposed) and matched with block groups that were not (i.e., unexposed). RESULTS The independent associations between everyday discrimination, heightened vigilance, housing unaffordability, and subjective sleep quality were not modified by greenspace redevelopment, controlling for other factors. The association between financial strain and subjective sleep quality was different for exposed and unexposed participants with exposed participants having a poorer sleep quality. The combined model revealed that the association between financial strain and sleep quality persisted. However, for different financial strain categories exposed participants slept poorer and/or better than unexposed participants. SIGNIFICANCE Our findings suggest a nuanced relationship between social environmental stressors, pressure of displacement related to greenspace redevelopment, and sleep quality among Black adults.
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- Patrice C Williams
- Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Master of Public Health Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Master of Public Health Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Master of Public Health Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Master of Public Health Program, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Ogbenna BT, Ryu S, Lee S, Slopen N. Discrimination and Sleep among Asians and Pacific Islanders Adults. Sleep 2021; 44:6257851. [PMID: 33912974 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the association between discrimination and sleep duration and difficulty among Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) in the United States, and to test nativity and ethnic identity (EI) as effect modifiers. METHODS This cross-sectional study of 1,765 adults from the National Epidemiology Study of Alcohol and Related Conditions III, assessed discrimination using the Experiences of Discrimination scale. Discrimimation was classified as low, moderate, and high. Regression models were used to examine self-reported sleep duration and difficulty. RESULTS In bivariate analyses, individuals with high discrimination had the shortest sleep and reported sleep difficulty most often. Using linear models adjusted for sociodemographic and health characteristics, moderate and high discrimination were associated with 9 minutes (standard error [SE]: 4.8, p <0.10) and 14.4 minutes (SE: 6.0, p <0.05) less sleep, respectively, relative to low discrimination. Individuals with moderate and high discrimination had higher prevalence of sleep difficulty compared to those with low discrimination (prevalence ratio [PR]: 1.51, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.14-1.99 and PR: 1.73, 95% CI: 1.33-2.24, respectively). Interaction effect was observed in sleep difficulty by nativity and EI, but not duration. The association between discrimination and sleep difficulty was stronger among US-born relative to foreign-born participants. Among participants with low EI, moderate and high discrimination were associated with sleep difficulty, whereas among those with high EI, only high discrimination displayed this association. CONCLUSIONS Discrimination is associated with sleep duration and difficulty, and varies by nativity and EI. Research is needed to improve sleep among APIs that experience discrimination.[.
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- Bethany Townsend Ogbenna
- University of Maryland School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, School of Public Policy, USA
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- University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, USA
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- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, USA
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Peltzer K, Pengpid S. Prevalence and correlates of insomnia symptoms among older adults in India: Results of a national survey in 2017-2018. Arch Ment Health 2021. [DOI: 10.4103/amh.amh_19_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Hart AR, Lavner JA, Carter SE, Beach SRH. Racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems among Blacks in the rural South. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 2021; 27:123-134. [PMID: 32437199 PMCID: PMC7876626 DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Experiences of racial discrimination are common for Black Americans and have been associated with depression and sleep disturbance, factors likely involved in the insidious development of health disparities. The current study replicates these associations and examines longitudinal linkages. METHOD Black American couples (men: N = 248, Mage = 40, SD = 9; women: N = 277, Mage = 37, SD = 7) and their children, aged 9 to 14 (N = 276, Mage = 11, SD = 1), completed measures of experiences of racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems at baseline and 8-month follow-up. In separate analyses for men, women, and youth, we examined concurrent and prospective associations of racial discrimination with depressive symptoms and sleep problems, then used longitudinal indirect effect models to examine whether depressive symptoms in response to racial discrimination led to increased sleep problems, or vice versa. RESULTS Racial discrimination was associated concurrently with depressive symptoms and sleep problems for all family members. Prospective associations were also found with depressive symptoms and sleep problems in fathers and youth, and sleep problems in mothers. Longitudinal models showed significant indirect effects of racial discrimination on change in sleep problems through depressive symptoms for fathers and mothers, and a similar, but nonsignificant, pattern in youth. There were no indirect effects on change in depressive symptoms through sleep problems. CONCLUSIONS Persistent associations of racial discrimination with depressive symptoms and sleep problems reflect a lasting impact of racial discrimination. Because discrimination's effects on depression may contribute to increased sleep problems over time, interventions that buffer the effects of discrimination on depressive symptoms may also reduce sleep problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia
- Center for Family Research, University of Georgia
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Yip T, Chen M, Wang Y, Slopen N, Chae D, Priest N, Williams D. Linking discrimination and sleep with biomarker profiles: An investigation in the MIDUS study. Compr Psychoneuroendocrinol 2020; 5. [PMID: 34337570 PMCID: PMC8321117 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpnec.2020.100021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Self-reported experiences of discrimination and sleep dysfunction have both been shown to adversely impact biological functioning; however, few studies have examined how they are jointly associated with health. The current study draws from two samples of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) data (n = 617 participants; 59.8% female; 72.3% White and 27.7% African American; Age: Mean = 52.6, SD = 12.22) to identify profiles of sleep (duration, variability, onset latency, wake after sleep onset, naps) and discrimination (everyday, lifetime, impact). Associations with latent profiles of biomarkers of inflammation (CRP, fibrinogen, IL-6) and endocrine stress (cortisol, epinephrine, norepinephrine) were examined. Three profiles were identified for sleep/discrimination (good, fair, poor) and for biomarkers (average, high inflammation, high neuroendocrine). Chi-square analyses indicated that adults in the good sleep/low discrimination profile were more likely to be in the average biomarker profile but less likely to be in the high inflammation profile. Adults in the fair sleep/moderate discrimination risk profile were more likely to be in the high inflammation profile. Adults in the poor sleep/high discrimination risk profile were less likely to be in the average biomarker profile but more likely to be in the high inflammation profile. The current study identified configurations of sleep and discrimination among midlife adults which were associated with profiles of biological risk. The findings provide implications for identifying individuals who may be at increased risk of developing stress-related tertiary outcomes of morbidity and disease. Evidence for distinct profiles of sleep/discrimination among Black and White adults. Riskier sleep/discrimination profiles are associated with riskier biomarker profiles. Black adults were more likely to be in the riskier sleep and biomarker profiles. Study links sleep and discrimination to inflammatory and endocrine biomarkers.
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- Tiffany Yip
- Fordham University, Department of Psychology, 441 E. Fordham Road, 226 Dealy Hall, Bronx, NY, 10458, USA
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- Michigan State University, Human Development and Family Studies, 552 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Michigan State University, Human Development and Family Studies, 552 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- University of Maryland, School of Public Health, 4200 Valley Drive, Suite 2242, College Park, MD, 20742-2611, USA
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- Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2210, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Australian National University, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Caberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Scott J, Silva S, Simmons LA. Social Adversity, Sleep Characteristics, and Elevated Blood Pressure Among Young Adult Black Females. Health Equity 2020; 4:421-429. [PMID: 33111027 PMCID: PMC7585615 DOI: 10.1089/heq.2020.0033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Purpose: We examined whether sleep characteristics and adverse social exposures were associated with elevated blood pressure (BP) in young adult black women. Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of existing data from 581 black females who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Adverse social exposures included child abuse, discrimination, perceived stress, social isolation, and subjective social status. Self-reported sleep characteristics were measures of duration, latency, continuity, and snoring. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the influence of social exposures and sleep characteristics on BP. Results: Among the women (mean age=29.1 years), 32.4% had elevated BP (≥130 systolic or ≥80 diastolic). In adjusted analysis, poor sleep continuity (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]=1.70, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.07–2.70) and discrimination (aOR=1.61, 95% CI=1.00–2.58) were associated with higher odds of elevated BP, while more social isolation (aOR=0.69, 95% CI=0.48–0.99) was associated with lower odds of elevated BP. Conclusion: Poor sleep continuity and experiencing discrimination may represent key risk factors for hypertension in young black females. Unexpectedly, being more isolated was associated with lower BP. Future research should examine how to adapt current paradigms and measures of social connectedness, isolation, and stress to better elucidate the impact of these factors on the long-term health of young black females.
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- Jewel Scott
- Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
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Cheng P, Cuellar R, Johnson DA, Kalmbach DA, Joseph CL, Cuamatzi Castelan A, Sagong C, Casement MD, Drake CL. Racial discrimination as a mediator of racial disparities in insomnia disorder. Sleep Health 2020; 6:543-9. [PMID: 32928711 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Study Objectives Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to suffer from insomnia that is more severe; however, few studies have examined mechanisms by which racial disparities in severity of insomnia disorder may arise. One potential mechanism for disparities in insomnia severity is perceived discrimination. This study tested discrimination as a mediator in the relationship between race and insomnia. Methods Participants were recruited from communities in the Detroit metropolitan area and were diagnosed with insomnia disorder using the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). The final sample included 1,458 individuals. Insomnia symptom severity was assessed via the Insomnia Severity Index and self-reported racial discrimination was evaluated using a single item. Racial discrimination was tested as a mediator in the relationship between race and insomnia symptom severity. Individuals were categroized as either White or a racial minority (i.e., non White individuals), with sensitivity analyses examining Black individuals and non-Black racial minority groups. Results Consistent with our hypothesis, racial discrimination was a significant mediator accounting for 57.3% of the relationship between race and insomnia symptom severity. Sensitivity analyses indicated that the indirect effect of racial discrimination was stronger in the non-Black racial minority group compared to Black individuals. Conclusions These results provide support that racial discrimination is likely an important mechanism by which racial and ethnic sleep disparities exist. Implications for prevention, intervention, and treatment of insomnia in racial minorities to reduce health disparities are discussed.
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Research on ethnic/racial disparities in sleep in the United States finds minorities to have shorter self-reported and actigraphy-recorded sleep duration and poorer sleep quality. Disparities in mental health mirror disparities in sleep with ethnic/racial minorities reporting higher prevalence and more severe struggles. This review focuses on recent research in sleep and mental health disparities and considers ethnic/racial discrimination as an important third variable that may link these two domains of disparities research. For example, research has found discrimination to mediate ethnic/racial disparities in sleep; at the same time, sleep has been observed to mediate the link between discrimination and mental health. The review concludes with the importance of considering ethnicity/race and accompanying sociodemographic, environmental, and behavioral influences on sleep and mental health research.
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Cavanagh L, Obasi EM. The Moderating Role of Coping Style on Chronic Stress Exposure and Cardiovascular Reactivity Among African American Emerging Adults. Prev Sci 2020; 22:357-366. [PMID: 32696119 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-020-01141-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Chronic stress exposure may contribute to dysregulation of cardiovascular functions and increase CVD risk among African Americans. This study investigated the direct and interactive effects of chronic stress exposure and coping styles on cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress. A sample of African American emerging adults (n = 277) completed a battery of self-report assessments and underwent the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) across two time points. Prior chronic stress exposure was negatively associated with heart rate (HR) reactivity among females at 1-month follow-up. Task-oriented coping was positively associated with HR reactivity, while avoidance-oriented coping showed a negative association. Higher use of emotion-oriented coping moderated the relationship between chronic stress exposure and HR reactivity, resulting in more robust reactivity. Among females, but not males, lower use of avoidance-oriented coping moderated the relationship between prior chronic stress exposure and HR reactivity, also resulting in more robust reactivity. Prior chronic stress exposure and the use of maladaptive coping strategies may confer negative impacts on cardiovascular reactivity, particularly among African American females. Using adaptive coping styles may mitigate these effects and improve cardiovascular reactivity. These findings provide preliminary support for psychosocial determinants of health within a controlled laboratory experiment and highlight important gender differences to consider in prevention efforts for African American cardiovascular health disparities.
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- Lucia Cavanagh
- Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, 491 Farish Hall, 77204, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, 491 Farish Hall, 77204, Houston, TX, USA. .,Health Research Institute, University of Houston, 1100 Health 2, 77204, Houston, TX, USA.
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Moody DLB, Chang YF, Pantesco EJ, Darden TM, Lewis TT, Brown C, Bromberger JT, Matthews KA. Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Blood Pressure Across 10 Years in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Ann Behav Med 2020; 53:608-620. [PMID: 30247506 DOI: 10.1093/abm/kay069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Interpersonal discrimination is linked to greater risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and this association varies by race/ethnicity. PURPOSE To examine whether exposure to everyday discrimination prospectively predicts elevated blood pressure (BP), whether this association differs by race/ethnicity, and is mediated by adiposity indices. METHODS Using data for 2,180 self-identified White, Black, Chinese, Japanese, and Hispanic participants from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, we examined associations among exposure to (higher vs. lower) everyday discrimination at baseline and BP and hypertension (HTN; systolic blood pressure [SBP] ≥ 140 mmHg; diastolic blood pressure [DBP] ≥ 90 mmHg; or self-reported HTN medication use) risk over a 10 year period. Additionally, we used the bootstrap method to assess repeated, time-varying markers of central and overall adiposity (waist circumference and body mass index [BMI] (kg/m2), respectively) as potential mediators. RESULTS Exposure to everyday discrimination predicted increases in SBP and DBP over time, even after adjusting for known demographic, behavioral, or medical risk factors. However, greater waist circumference or BMI (examined separately) mediated these observations. Notably, there were no racial/ethnic differences in the observed association and HTN risk was not predicted. CONCLUSIONS The current findings suggest that everyday discrimination may contribute to elevated BP over time in U.S. women, in part, through increased adiposity. These findings demonstrate the complexity of the linkage of discrimination to CVD risk and raise the need to closely examine biobehavioral pathways that may serve as potential mediators.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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Yip T, Cham H, Wang Y, El-Sheikh M. Discrimination and Sleep Mediate Ethnic/Racial Identity and Adolescent Adjustment: Uncovering Change Processes With Slope-as-Mediator Mediation. Child Dev 2020; 91:1021-1043. [PMID: 31317537 PMCID: PMC6980173 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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This study employs slope-as-mediator techniques to explore how the daily association between ethnic/racial discrimination and sleep disturbances serves as an intermediary link between ethnic/racial identity (ERI) and psychological adjustment. In a diverse sample of 264 adolescents (Mage = 14.3 years old, 70% female, 76% United States born, 25% African American, 32% Asian American, 43% Latinx), discrimination was associated with sleep disturbance. Furthermore, ERI commitment buffered the impact of discrimination on sleep, whereas ERI exploration exacerbated the impact of discrimination. Finally, the daily level association between discrimination and sleep (i.e., daily slope) mediated the association between ERI and adolescent adjustment. Substantive links between discrimination and sleep are discussed as well as broader applications of slope-as-mediator techniques.
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Alcántara C, Gallo LC, Wen J, Dudley KA, Wallace DM, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Sotres-Alvarez D, Zee PC, Ramos AR, Petrov ME, Casement MD, Hall MH, Redline S, Patel SR. Employment status and the association of sociocultural stress with sleep in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Sleep 2020; 42:5288628. [PMID: 30649533 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Revised: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES We examined the association of sociocultural stress severity (i.e. acculturation stress, ethnic discrimination) and chronic stress burden with multiple dimensions of sleep in a population-based sample of US Hispanics/Latinos. We also explored whether employment status modified stress-sleep associations. METHODS We conducted survey linear regressions to test the cross-sectional association of sociocultural stress severity and stress burden with sleep dimensions using data collected between 2010 and 2013 from individuals who participated in both the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sueño and Sociocultural Ancillary studies (N = 1192). RESULTS Greater acculturation stress (B = 0.75, standard error [SE] = 0.26, p < .01) and chronic psychosocial stress burden (B = 1.04, SE = 0.18, p < .001) were associated with greater insomnia symptoms but were not associated with actigraphic measures of sleep. Ethnic discrimination was not associated with any of the sleep dimensions. The association of acculturation stress with insomnia severity was greater in unemployed (B = 2.06, SE = 0.34) compared to employed (B = 1.01, SE = 0.31) participants (p-interaction = .08). CONCLUSIONS Acculturation stress severity and chronic stress burden are important and consistent correlates of insomnia, but not actigraphically measured sleep dimensions. If replicated, future research should test whether interventions targeting the resolution of sociocultural stress improve sleep quality in Hispanics/Latinos.
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-Gillins School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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Van Dyke ME, Baumhofer NK, Slopen N, Mujahid MS, Clark CR, Williams DR, Lewis TT. Pervasive Discrimination and Allostatic Load in African American and White Adults. Psychosom Med 2020; 82:316-23. [PMID: 32108740 DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine associations among race, the accumulation of multiple forms of discriminatory experiences (i.e., "pervasive discrimination"), and allostatic load (AL) in African Americans and whites in midlife. METHODS Using data collected in 2004 to 2006 from 226 African American and 978 white adults (57% female; mean [SD] age = 54.7 [0.11] years) in the Midlife in the United States II Biomarker Project, a pervasive discrimination score was created by combining three discrimination scales, and an AL score was created based on 24 biomarkers representing seven physiological systems. Linear regression models were conducted to examine the association between pervasive discrimination and AL, adjusting for demographics and medical, behavioral, and personality covariates. A race by pervasive discrimination interaction was also examined to determine whether associations varied by race. RESULTS African Americans had higher pervasive discrimination and AL scores than did whites. In models adjusted for demographics, socioeconomic status, medications, health behaviors, neuroticism, and negative affect, a pervasive discrimination score of 2 versus 0 was associated with a greater AL score (b = 0.30, SE = 0.07, p < .001). Although associations seemed to be stronger among African Americans as compared with whites, associations did not statistically differ by race. CONCLUSIONS More pervasive discrimination was related to greater multisystemic physiological dysregulation in a cohort of African American and white adults. Measuring discrimination by combining multiple forms of discriminatory experiences may be important for studying the health effects of discrimination.
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Gaston SA, Feinstein L, Slopen N, Sandler DP, Williams DR, Jackson CL. Everyday and major experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination and sleep health in a multiethnic population of U.S. women: findings from the Sister Study. Sleep Med 2020; 71:97-105. [PMID: 32505024 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2020.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and poor sleep occur across all races/ethnicities in the U.S., although both are most common among racial/ethnic minorities. Few studies have investigated associations between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and various sleep dimensions in a multiethnic population. METHODS We analyzed cross-sectional associations among 40,038 eligible Sister Study participants (enrollment: 2003-2009) who reported ever/never experiencing specific types of everyday (eg, treated unfairly at a store or restaurant) or major (eg, unfairly stopped, threatened, or searched by police) discrimination attributed to their race/ethnicity during a follow-up survey in 2008-2012. Participants also reported short sleep duration (<7 h), sleep debt (≥2-h difference between longest and shortest sleep duration), frequent napping (≥3 times/week), and insomnia. Poisson regression with robust variance estimation, adjusted for sociodemographic and health characteristics, estimated prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association between each type of racial/ethnic discrimination and each sleep dimension, overall and by race/ethnicity. RESULTS Mean age was 55 ± 8.9 years, 89% were Non-Hispanic (NH)-white, 8% NH-black, and 3% Hispanic/Latina. NH-black participants were the most likely to report everyday (76% vs. 4% [NH-whites] and 36% [Hispanics/Latinas]) and major racial/ethnic discrimination (52% vs. 2% [NH-whites] and 18% [Hispanics/Latinas]). Participants who experienced both types versus neither were more likely to report short sleep duration (PR = 1.17 [95% CI: 1.09-1.25]) and insomnia symptoms (PR = 1.10 [1.01-1.20]) but not other poor sleep dimensions. CONCLUSIONS Racial/ethnic minority women were most likely to experience racial/ethnic discrimination, which was associated with certain poor sleep dimensions among women of all races/ethnicities.
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- Symielle A Gaston
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC, USA; Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; Intramural Program, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Hudson D, Sacks T, Irani K, Asher A. The Price of the Ticket: Health Costs of Upward Mobility among African Americans. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:ijerph17041179. [PMID: 32069785 PMCID: PMC7068450 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17041179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Revised: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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There is a growing literature that has documented diminishing health returns on upward social mobility among Black Americans. Due to historical policies and practices, upward social mobility is often an arduous, isolating process for Black Americans, especially as they navigate predominately white educational and workplace settings. This paper advances the literature in several meaningful and innovative ways. The goal of this paper is to provide a qualitative account of the health costs of upward social mobility and describe how these costs could diminish health returns despite greater levels of socioeconomic resources. Focus groups and surveys were the data collection methods for the study. Inclusion criteria for the study were that respondents identified as African American or Black, were 24 years or older and had completed college. The total sample was 32 college-educated Black men (n = 12) and women (n = 20). The mean age for men was 39 (range = 26-50) and 33 years of age (range = 24-59) for women. Key findings highlighted in this paper include (1) hypervisibility and subsequent vigilance; (2) uplift stress; and (3) health costs associated with social mobility. The sum of these stressors is posited to affect multiple health outcomes and elucidate the mechanisms through which socioeconomic returns on health are diminished.
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- Darrell Hudson
- Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-314-935-3517
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- School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;
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- Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA;
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- School of Public Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA;
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Bethea TN, Zhou ES, Schernhammer ES, Castro-Webb N, Cozier YC, Rosenberg L. Perceived racial discrimination and risk of insomnia among middle-aged and elderly Black women. Sleep 2020; 43:zsz208. [PMID: 31555803 PMCID: PMC6955644 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess whether perceived racial discrimination is associated with insomnia among Black women. METHODS Data on everyday and lifetime racism and insomnia symptoms were collected from questionnaires administered in the Black Women's Health Study, an ongoing prospective cohort of Black women recruited in 1995 from across the United States. In 2009, participants completed five questions on the frequency of discriminatory practices in daily life (everyday racism) and six questions on ever experiencing unfair treatment in key institutional contexts (lifetime racism). In 2015, the Insomnia Severity Index was used to assess insomnia symptoms. We estimated odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for associations of racism with insomnia, using multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for potential confounders. RESULTS The 26 139 participants in the analytic sample were 40-90 years old (median = 57 years, SD = 9.6 years). Higher levels of everyday racism and lifetime racism were positively associated with subthreshold (ptrend < .01) and clinical insomnia (ptrend < .01). Results remained unchanged after further adjustment for sleep duration and shift work. CONCLUSIONS Higher levels of perceived racism were associated with increased odds of insomnia among middle-aged and elderly Black women. Thus, perceived racism may contribute to multiple racial health disparities resulting from insomnia. Helping minority populations cope with their experiences of discrimination may decrease the significant public health impact of sleep disruption and subsequent diagnoses.
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- Traci N Bethea
- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
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Chen J. Social Epidemiology of Sleep: Extant Evidence and Future Directions. CURR EPIDEMIOL REP 2019; 6:449-65. [DOI: 10.1007/s40471-019-00219-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This set of studies examines the bidirectional links between social rejection and poor sleep, a ubiquitous and increasingly problematic health behavior. METHODS In study 1, a multiday field experiment, 43 participants completed a neutral task just before sleep on night 1 and a social rejection task on night 2. Objective and subjective sleep, postrejection affect, and physiological responses were measured. In study 2, 338 participants reported typical sleep quality before coming to the laboratory where they received social rejection or social acceptance feedback from a stranger. Physiological and affective responses were measured throughout the session. RESULTS In study 1, after social rejection, participants took longer going to bed (M [SD] = 38.06 [48.56] versus 11.18 [15.52], t(42) = 3.86, p < .001) and had shorter sleep durations (6:46 [1:27] versus 7:19 [1:38], t(41) = 2.92, p = .006) compared with the baseline night. Trait rumination moderated these effects, with high ruminators taking the longest to go to bed postrejection (t(38) = 2.90, p = .006). In both studies, there was (inconsistent) evidence that sleep influences reactions to rejection: some sleep measures predicted physiological reactivity during the rejection task in study 1 and greater negative affect after social rejection in study 2. CONCLUSIONS These studies provide evidence that social rejection may affect sleep outcomes, particularly for trait ruminators, and poor sleep in turn may exacerbate affective responses to social rejection. Given the mixed findings, small sample size, and no active control condition, more work is needed to confirm and build on these findings.
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Dusendang JR, Reeves AN, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Herman WH, Ylitalo KR, Harlow SD. The association between perceived discrimination in midlife and peripheral neuropathy in a population-based cohort of women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Ann Epidemiol 2019; 37:10-16. [PMID: 31447292 PMCID: PMC6755046 DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2019.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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PURPOSE Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a highly prevalent condition with serious sequelae. Many studies of the condition have been restricted to populations with diabetes, limiting evidence of potential contributing risk factors including salient psychosocial risk factors such as discrimination. METHODS The longitudinal Study of Women's Health Across the Nation was used to assess the relationship between perceived discrimination and prevalent PN in 1718 ethnically diverse midlife women. We used multivariable logistic regression to determine the association between perceived discrimination (Detroit Area Study Everyday Discrimination Scale) and PN (symptom questionnaire and monofilament testing) and conducted an assessment of the mediating effects of body mass index (BMI). RESULTS The prevalence of PN was 26.1% in the total sample and 40.9% among women with diabetes. Women who reported perceived discrimination had 29% higher odds of PN compared with women who did not report perceived discrimination (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.66). Approximately 30% of the total effect of discrimination on PN was mediated indirectly by BMI. CONCLUSIONS More research is needed to determine the contributing factors to nondiabetic PN. Our findings reaffirm the impact of financial strain, BMI, and diabetes as significant correlates of PN and highlight discrimination as an important risk factor.
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- Jennifer R Dusendang
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Saelee R, Vaccarino V, Sullivan S, Hammadah M, Shah A, Wilmot K, Abdelhadi N, Elon L, Pimple P, Kaseer B, Levantsevych O, Bremner JD, Lewis TT. Longitudinal associations between self-reported experiences of discrimination and depressive symptoms in young women and men post- myocardial infarction. J Psychosom Res 2019; 124:109782. [PMID: 31371836 PMCID: PMC6673666 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Objectives Research suggests that following a myocardial infarction (MI), women under the age of 60 have more elevated depressive symptoms and adverse outcomes than similarly aged men. Identifying risk factors that contribute to gender differences in depressive symptoms among this group may be critical to the development of psychosocial interventions. Experiences of discrimination may be an important correlate of depressive symptoms in this group; however, studies of this relationship have largely been cross-sectional and focused on healthy populations. This study examines longitudinal associations among gender, discrimination, and depressive symptoms in a young post-MI cohort. Methods Participants were 313 adults from the Myocardial Infarction and Mental Stress Ischemia Study 2 of young (≤60 yrs) post-MI patients. At baseline and 6 month follow-up, depressive symptoms were measured with the Beck Depression Inventory-II and discrimination was assessed with the 10-item version Everyday Discrimination scale. Linear regression models were used to assess the longitudinal association between reports of discrimination and depressive symptoms adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics, psychosocial factors and health status indicators and tested for gender differences. Results The mean age was 51.2, 49.6% were women, and 69.5% were African-American. Although the discrimination-by-gender interaction was marginally significant (p=.09) in the fully adjusted model, findings suggest that the association between changes in reports of discrimination and depressive symptoms over time may be more pronounced for women (β=.61, standard error=.15, p<.001) than men (β=.27, standard error=.13, p=.033). Conclusion Our findings suggest that discrimination is a risk factor for depressive symptoms in young post-MI populations over time.
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- Ryan Saelee
- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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King LS, Rangel E, Simpson N, Tikotzky L, Manber R. Mothers' postpartum sleep disturbance is associated with the ability to sustain sensitivity toward infants. Sleep Med 2019; 65:74-83. [PMID: 31734620 PMCID: PMC10173890 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Revised: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Infancy is a period of rapid development when the quality of caregiving behavior may be particularly consequential for children's long-term functioning. During this critical period for caregiving behavior, parents experience changes in their sleep that may affect their ability to provide sensitive care. The current study investigated the association of mothers' sleep disturbance with both levels and trajectories of maternal sensitivity during interactions with their infants. METHODS At 18 weeks postpartum, mothers and their infants were observed during a home-based 10-minute "free play" interaction. Mothers' nighttime sleep was objectively measured using actigraphy and subjectively measured using sleep diaries. Maternal sensitivity was coded in two-minute intervals in order to characterize changes in sensitivity across the free play interaction. We used exploratory factor analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the objective and subjective measures of mothers' sleep, identifying a subjective sleep disturbance and an objective sleep continuity factor. RESULTS Using multi-level modeling, we found that mothers with poorer objective sleep continuity evidenced decreasing sensitivity toward their infants across the interaction. Mothers' self-reports of sleep disturbance were not associated with maternal sensitivity. CONCLUSIONS Although future research is necessary to identify the mechanisms that may explain the observed association between poor sleep continuity and the inability to sustain sensitivity toward infants, mothers' postpartum sleep continuity may be one factor to consider when designing interventions to improve the quality of caregiving. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01846585.
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- Lucy S King
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USA
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Christian LM, Carroll JE, Porter K, Hall MH. Sleep quality across pregnancy and postpartum: effects of parity and race. Sleep Health 2019; 5:327-334. [PMID: 31122875 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Revised: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Despite high prevalence and clinical implications of disturbed sleep during pregnancy, information on changes in sleep across pregnancy and postpartum is incomplete. Moreover, predictors of differential patterns of sleep quality across the perinatal period are poorly defined. METHODS This study examined subjective sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index during each trimester of pregnancy and at 4-11 weeks postpartum among 133 women inclusive of nulliparous and multiparous African Americans and Whites. RESULTS At any given assessment, 53%-71% of women reported poor overall sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index total score > 5). Moreover, 92% reported poor overall sleep quality during at least 1 assessment, including 88% at some time during gestation. Compared to nulliparous women, multiparous women reported poorer overall sleep quality, shorter sleep duration, and poorer sleep efficiency during the first trimester; poorer overall sleep quality and longer sleep latency in the second trimester; and more frequent sleep disturbances (eg, night time and early morning awakenings) during the third trimester. Among nulliparous as well as multiparous women, specific aspects of sleep (eg, subjective sleep quality, sleep disturbances, sleep efficiency) were poorer in African American compared to White women at different time points during pregnancy. No effects of race or parity were observed on sleep parameters at postpartum. CONCLUSIONS Poor sleep quality during pregnancy as well as early postpartum is highly prevalent among both African American and White women. Both multiparous status and African American race are associated with more disturbed sleep at some time points during pregnancy. These individual differences should be considered in future research and clinical efforts to promote perinatal sleep health.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lisa M Christian
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health and the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Psychiatry, Psychology, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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