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Advances in Sleep Behaviors Associated with Health Outcomes

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 7776

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Andrea Spaeth

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Division of Life Science, Department of Kinesiology and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 001201, USA
Interests: sleep; metabolic health; weight regulation; substance use
Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied

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Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA
Interests: slow wave sleep; mood disorders
Dr. Chandra L. Jackson

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National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Interests: racial disparities in sleep; health disparities
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Special Issue entitled “Advances in Sleep Behaviors Associated with Health Outcomes”. This is a collection of important high-quality papers (original research articles or comprehensive review papers) published in Open Access form by Editorial Board Members, or prominent scholars invited by the Editorial Office and the Section Editor-in-Chief. This Special Issue aims to discuss new knowledge or new cutting-edge developments in the sleep health research field. Specifically, this issue highlights research examining the importance of sleep for optimal mental and physical health and disease prevention. We would also like to highlight racial and socioeconomic disparities in sleep health and how this contributes to disparities in other health outcomes.

Papers could be either research papers with a detailed summary of your own work, or papers highlighting/reviewing a topic in this area. Contributions to this important Special Issue will be accepted by invitation only. In order to benefit both authors and readers, we would like to grant a discount for submissions based on our evaluation.

You are welcome to send a tentative title and a short abstract to our Editorial Office ([email protected]) for evaluation before submission. Please note that selected full papers will still be subjected to a thorough and rigorous peer-review.

We are looking forward to receiving your excellent work.

Dr. Chandra L. Jackson
Dr. Andrea Spaeth
Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • racial disparities
  • mental health
  • chronic disease
  • circadian
  • sleep debt
  • pediatric sleep
  • prevention
  • sleep medicine

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The Interaction between Lockdown-Specific Conditions and Family-Specific Variables Explains the Presence of Child Insomnia during COVID-19: A Key Response to the Current Debate
by Royce Anders, Florian Lecuelle, Clément Perrin, Swann Ruyter, Patricia Franco, Stéphanie Huguelet and Benjamin Putois
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(23), 12503; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph182312503 - 27 Nov 2021
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It is still debated whether lockdown conditions in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health crisis seriously affected children’s sleep. For young children, some studies identified more insomnia, while others only transient disturbances, or even no effect. Based on the premise of [...] Read more.
It is still debated whether lockdown conditions in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health crisis seriously affected children’s sleep. For young children, some studies identified more insomnia, while others only transient disturbances, or even no effect. Based on the premise of mother–child synchrony, a well-known dynamic established in child development research, we hypothesized that principally, the children whose mothers perceived the lockdown as stressful and/or responded maladaptively, suffered sleep disturbances. The main objective of this study was to identify the family profiles, variables, and lockdown responses most linked to insomnia in young children. The sample consisted of 165 mothers, French vs. Swiss origin (accounting for different lockdown severities), of children 6 months to 5 years old. Validated sleep, stress, and behavior scales were used. Multiple regression, age-matched clustering, and structural equation modeling analyses provided evidence that insomnia in young children is indeed strongly linked to the mother’s reaction to the pandemic and lockdown. Specifically, reactions such as COVID-19 fear/anxiety and obsessive COVID-19 information seeking coincide with heightened vigilance, cascading into reduced child social contact, outings, and increased screen viewing, ultimately culminating in child insomnia and behavioral problems. Mother education level and child day care quality (e.g., home-schooling) were also identified as strong insomnia predictors. Full article
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Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability: A Pilot Study Exploring Associations between Child Sleep Problems, Child Factors and Parent Factors
by Nicole Papadopoulos, Chloe Emonson, Christina Martin, Emma Sciberras, Harriet Hiscock, Samantha Lewis, Jane McGillivray and Nicole Rinehart
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(21), 11377; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph182111377 - 29 Oct 2021
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Sleep problems are common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, few studies have undertaken group comparisons of sleep profiles and factors associated with poorer sleep between children with ASD without intellectual disability (ID; hereafter referred to as ASD) and ASD with [...] Read more.
Sleep problems are common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, few studies have undertaken group comparisons of sleep profiles and factors associated with poorer sleep between children with ASD without intellectual disability (ID; hereafter referred to as ASD) and ASD with co-occurring ID (hereafter referred to as ASD + ID). This study aimed to (1) compare child (sleep problems and emotional and behavioural problems (EBPs)) and parent factors (parenting stress and mental health) for children with ASD compared to children with ASD + ID, and (2) examine the associations between sleep problems and child and parent factors in both groups. Parents of 56 children with ASD (22 ASD, 34 ASD + ID) aged 6–13 years took part in the study. No statistically significant differences in sleep problems were found between children with ASD compared to children with ASD + ID. However, total EBPs were independently associated with child sleep problems in both groups. Further, ‘Self-Absorbed’ and ‘Communication Disturbance’ EBPs were significantly greater in the ASD + ID compared to the ASD group. Overall treatment outcomes for children with ASD may be further improved if consideration is given to the specific types of EBPs being experienced by the child and their association with sleep problems. Full article
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Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Sleep Health by Age, Sex/Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States
by Dana M. Alhasan, Symielle A. Gaston, W. Braxton Jackson II, Patrice C. Williams, Ichiro Kawachi and Chandra L. Jackson
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(24), 9475; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph17249475 - 17 Dec 2020
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Although low neighborhood social cohesion (nSC) has been linked with poor sleep, studies of racially/ethnically diverse participants using multiple sleep dimensions remain sparse. Using National Health Interview Survey data, we examined overall, age, sex/gender, and racial/ethnic-specific associations between nSC and sleep health among [...] Read more.
Although low neighborhood social cohesion (nSC) has been linked with poor sleep, studies of racially/ethnically diverse participants using multiple sleep dimensions remain sparse. Using National Health Interview Survey data, we examined overall, age, sex/gender, and racial/ethnic-specific associations between nSC and sleep health among 167,153 adults. Self-reported nSC was categorized into low, medium, and high. Very short sleep duration was defined as <6 hours; short as <7 h, recommended as 7–9 h, and long as ≥9 h. Sleep disturbances were assessed based on trouble falling and staying asleep, waking up feeling unrested, and using sleep medication (all ≥3 days/times in the previous week). Adjusting for sociodemographics and other confounders, we used Poisson regression with robust variance to estimate prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for sleep dimensions by low and medium vs. high nSC. The mean age of the sample was 47 ± 0.1 years, 52% of those included were women, and 69% were Non-Hispanic (NH)-White. Low vs. high nSC was associated with a higher prevalence of very short sleep (PR = 1.29; (95% CI = 1.23–1.36)). After adjustment, low vs. high nSC was associated with very short sleep duration among NH-White (PR = 1.34 (95% CI = 1.26–1.43)) and NH-Black (PR = 1.14 (95% CI = 1.02–1.28)) adults. Low nSC was associated with shorter sleep duration and sleep disturbances. Full article
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