Sleep duration, sleep quality and the risk of being obese: Evidence from the Australian panel survey
Keramat, Syed Afroz, Alam, Khorshed, Basri, Rabeya, Siddika, Farzana, Siddiqui, Zubayer Hassan, Okyere, Joshua, Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, and Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku (2023) Sleep duration, sleep quality and the risk of being obese: Evidence from the Australian panel survey. Sleep Medicine, 109 (September). pp. 56-64.
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Abstract
Background: Sleep difficulty is an unmet public health concern affecting a vast proportion of the world's population. Poor sleep duration (short or long sleep length) and quality affect more than half of older people. Sleep difficulty is associated with negative health outcomes such as obesity and reduced longevity. We aimed to assess whether poor sleep duration and quality are significant risk factors for obesity in adults aged 15 and over in Australia by examining a nationally representative panel data.
Methods: We used three waves (waves 13, 17, and 21) of the nationally representative Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data. The study applied generalized estimating equations (GEE) logistic regression model to assess the relationship between sleep duration and quality with obesity.
Results: The study found that the odds of being obese was significantly higher amongst the study participants with poor sleep duration (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 1.24, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.16–1.32) and poor sleep quality (aOR: 1.29, 95% CI: 1.02–1.38) compared with their counterparts who had good sleep duration and quality, respectively.
Conclusion: Having short or long sleep at night and poor sleep quality are associated with an increased risk of obesity. Obesity poses a significant threat to the health of Australian adults. Enacting policies that raise public awareness of the significance of good sleep hygiene and encouraging healthy sleeping habits should be considered to address the alarming rise in the obesity rate.
| Item ID: | 79468 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1878-5506 |
| Keywords: | Australia, Obesity, Sleep duration, Sleep quality |
| Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2024 05:24 |
| FoR Codes: | 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science > 420199 Allied health and rehabilitation science not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2004 Public health (excl. specific population health) > 200401 Behaviour and health @ 100% |
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