Racial/ethnic disparities in sleep duration and sleep disturbances among pregnant and non-pregnant women in the United States.

Racial/ethnic disparities in sleep duration and sleep disturbances among pregnant and non-pregnant women in the United States. J Sleep Res. 2020 Feb 29;:e13000 Authors: Feinstein L, McWhorter KL, Gaston SA, Troxel WM, Sharkey KM, Jackson CL Abstract Sleep disturbances among pregnant women are increasingly linked to suboptimal maternal/birth outcomes. Few studies in the USA investigating sleep by pregnancy status have included racially/ethnically diverse populations, despite worsening disparities in adverse birth outcomes. Using a nationally representative sample of 71,644 (2,349 pregnant) women from the National Health Interview Survey (2004-2017), we investigated relationships between self-reported pregnancy and six sleep characteristics stratified by race/ethnicity. We also examined associations between race/ethnicity and sleep stratified by pregnancy status. We used average marginal predictions from fitted logistic regression models to estimate prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for each sleep dimension, adjusting for sociodemographic and health characteristics. Pregnant women were less likely than non-pregnant women to report short sleep (PROverall  = 0.75; 95% CI, 0.68-0.82) and more likely to report long sleep (PROverall  = 2.06; 95% CI, 1.74-2.43) and trouble staying asleep (PROverall  = 1.34; 95% CI, 1.25-1.44). The association between pregnancy and sleep duration was less pronounced among women ...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Tags: J Sleep Res Source Type: research