Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.006
Joseph M Dzierzewski, John G Lopos
{"title":"Celebrating 10 years of Sleep Health helping to advance National Sleep Foundation's mission.","authors":"Joseph M Dzierzewski, John G Lopos","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.007
Péter P Ujma, Róbert Bódizs
{"title":"Sleep homeostasis occurs in a naturalistic setting.","authors":"Péter P Ujma, Róbert Bódizs","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sleep, especially non-rapid eye movement sleep depth is homeostatically regulated, as sleep pressure builds up during wakefulness and diminishes during deep sleep. Previous evidence from this phenomenon, however, mainly stems from experimental studies which may not generalize to an ecologically valid setting.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In the current study, we used a dataset of 246 individuals sleeping for at least seven nights each with a mobile electroencephalography headband according to their ordinary daily schedule to investigate the effect of time spent in wakefulness on sleep characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Increased time in wakefulness prior to sleep was associated with decreased sleep onset latency, increased sleep efficiency, a larger percentage of N3 sleep, and higher delta activity. Moreover, increased sleep pressure resulted in an increase in both the slope and the intercept of the sleep electroencephalography spectrum. As predicted, power spectral density effects were most prominent in the earliest hours of sleep.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results demonstrate that experimental findings showing increased sleep depth after extended wakefulness generalize to ecologically valid settings, and that time spent awake is an important determinant of sleep characteristics on the subsequent night. Our findings are evidence for the efficacy of sleep restriction, a behavioral technique already widely used in clinical settings, as a simple but powerful method to improve the objective quality of sleep in those with sleep problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.004
Meir Kryger
{"title":"10 years of art!","authors":"Meir Kryger","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.001
Florian Lecuelle, Marie-Josèphe Challamel, Michal Kahn, Jodi A Mindell, Oliviero Bruni, Bruno Claustrat, Royce Anders, Patricia Franco, Benjamin Putois
{"title":"Should you let your baby cry at night? The \"no\" rumor persists, despite insufficient scientific evidence with cortisol-stress measures.","authors":"Florian Lecuelle, Marie-Josèphe Challamel, Michal Kahn, Jodi A Mindell, Oliviero Bruni, Bruno Claustrat, Royce Anders, Patricia Franco, Benjamin Putois","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143531974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2024.11.004
Michele Lastella, Dean J Miller, Ashley Montero, Madeline Sprajcer, Sally A Ferguson, Matthew Browne, Grace E Vincent
{"title":"Sleep on it: A pilot study exploring the impact of sexual activity on sleep outcomes in cohabiting couples.","authors":"Michele Lastella, Dean J Miller, Ashley Montero, Madeline Sprajcer, Sally A Ferguson, Matthew Browne, Grace E Vincent","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2024.11.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2024.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The main aim of this pilot study was to examine the impact of sexual activity on objective and subjective sleep parameters.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A repeated-measures counterbalanced, cross-over design with three conditions - no sex, solo masturbation, and partnered sex was employed with cohabiting couples. In this pilot study 14 individuals participated in the study (7 females, 7 males; mean age 29.9 ± 3.4years). Sexual activities and sleep were monitored for 11 consecutive nights using a portable polysomnography system (DREEM3) and daily sex and sleep surveys.</p><p><strong>Statistical analyses: </strong>Linear mixed models were employed to examine differences in sleep, readiness, and motivation following three conditions (i.e., no sex, solo masturbation, and partnered sex). Cohen's d effect sizes with 95% confidence limits were also calculated for pairwise comparisons between conditions with the effect of magnitude interpreted as follows: small= 0.2, medium 0.5, large 0.8, very large 1.0. Wilcoxon Signed-Rank tests were conducted to compare the sleep stage concordance between partners across conditions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants attempted sleep considerably later following the solo masturbation and partnered sex conditions compared to the no sex condition (p = .004). Wake after sleep onset and sleep efficiency improved considerably following solo masturbation and partnered sex compared to no sex (p < .05). No differences were observed across conditions for subjective sleep (p > .05). Sleep stage concordance for rapid eye movement sleep was longer when participants slept together regardless of whether they engaged or did not engage in sexual activity (p < .05).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Engaging in sexual activity, whether solo masturbation or partnered, significantly enhanced objective sleep quality by reducing wakefulness after sleep onset and improving sleep efficiency. Objective wake up time, sleep duration, sleep latency and subjective sleep measures showed no differences postsexual activity, potentially attributable to the small sample size and the inclusion of only healthy sleepers. Future research should focus on expanding the sample size and incorporating participants with sleep disorders to thoroughly investigate if sexual activity before bedtime can improve sleep.</p>","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.006
Roxanna King, Shelby Koch, Raven Burns, Cameron Cupp, Meghan Lindell, Sara London, Joseph Bunch, Amanda Fretts, Tauqeer Ali, Jason Umans, Lonnie Nelson
{"title":"Content analysis of factors related to sleep health among American Indian peoples.","authors":"Roxanna King, Shelby Koch, Raven Burns, Cameron Cupp, Meghan Lindell, Sara London, Joseph Bunch, Amanda Fretts, Tauqeer Ali, Jason Umans, Lonnie Nelson","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chronic sleep problems are commonly reported in American Indian (AI) peoples, however there is a lack of qualitative research examining the behavioral, psychological, sociocultural, and economic factors surrounding sleep health among AI peoples. This study aims to remedy that oversight by providing qualitative data on AI peoples sleep health.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To explore the perceived barriers to and facilitators of healthy sleep in AI peoples and identify protective cultural factors associated with sleep for AI peoples.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Fifty-nine American Indians aged 30-79 located across 3 geographic sites: Arizona, South Dakota, and Oklahoma.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Focus groups were collected in November 2019 and individual interviews were conducted between May and November 2020. Conventional content analysis was used to examine the recurring and overlapping themes related to perceptions of barriers to and facilitators of healthy sleep.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results yielded 11 barriers to healthy sleep and 12 facilitators of healthy sleep. Facilitators included protective cultural factors such as good dreams, cultural bedtime routine, praying, traditional knowledge, ceremonies and practices, and traditional remedies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings suggest future sleep health interventions among AI peoples should focus on promoting the cultural factors that were identified as protective factors and improving the sleep environment. Culturally tailoring sleep health interventions is an important step forward in decolonizing research methodologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association of different folate statuses with sleep disturbances in adults in the US: Data from NHANES 2007-2016.","authors":"Jiayuan Tu, Xiaoqiao Mo, Zihao Chen, Lijuan Xi, Chunhui Wu, Tian Xie, Yongzhuang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore the associations between three folate statuses (folate intake, serum folate, and red blood cell folate) and sleep disturbances in adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Trends in sleep disturbances in five consecutive cycles were evaluated using Cochran-Armitage tests. Survey-weighted logistic regression models, restricted cubic spline models, and interaction analysis were used to evaluate the associations between different statuses of folate and sleep disturbances.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This cross-sectional study included 20,200 eligible adults from five cycles of NHANES (2007-2016). The overall crude prevalence of sleep disturbances increased over time from 25.8% (95% confidence intervals, 23.6%, 28.0%) in 2007-2008 to 29.3% (95% confidence intervals, 25.9%, 32.9%) in 2015-2016 (P for trend <.001). In adjusted, weighted multivariable regression models, compared to the second quartile (Q2), lower folate intake levels (Q1, odds ratio=1.22, 95% confidence intervals: 1.06, 1.40), higher folate intake levels (Q4, odds ratio=1.18, 95% confidence intervals: 1.01, 1.38), and higher red blood cell folate levels (Q4, odds ratio=1.17, 95% confidence intervals: 1.03, 1.33) were independently associated with higher odds of sleep disturbances. The restricted cubic spline models revealed U-shaped, nonlinear associations between different folate statuses and the risk of sleep disturbances. A daily folate intake of approximately 439 mcg, a serum folate concentration of approximately 35nom/L, and an red blood cell folate concentration of approximately 886nmol/L were associated with the lowest risk of sleep disturbances. The results were robust in interaction and sensitivity analyses.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We observed U-shaped associations between folate intake, serum folate, red blood cell folate, and sleep disturbances among US adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-02-24DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.004
Eileen Díaz McConnell, Connor M Sheehan
{"title":"Deportation entanglement and US Latino sleep health: A nationally representative multiwave study.","authors":"Eileen Díaz McConnell, Connor M Sheehan","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study uses nationally representative multiwave data to analyze the relationship between the US mass deportation system and the sleep health of Latino/Hispanic adults. Deportation-related concerns can be a unique source of stress and rumination relevant for the sleeping patterns of the US Latino population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyze two waves of Pew Research Center survey data about Latinos collected in 2019 and 2020 (N=1591). We fit logistic regression models to investigate whether emotional and tangible entanglements with the deportation system in December 2019 were linked with self-reported sleep troubles among Latinos in March 2020, net of other covariates.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Nearly half of Latinos worry \"some\" or a \"lot\" about deportation and nearly half know someone who has been recently deported or detained. A third of Latino adults reported moderate to a lot of trouble sleeping three or more nights per week. The logistic regression results reveal that controlling for a comprehensive set of covariates, Latinos who were \"a lot\" worried about deportation or who know people who have been deported/detained were significantly more likely to report that they had trouble sleeping.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results suggest that the US deportation system presents a unique source of stress and rumination that negatively impacts Latino sleep. These findings advance social scientific knowledge and the socio-ecological framework regarding how US policy priorities of deporting and detaining immigrants can potentially alter the sleeping patterns of a large segment of Americans, even among those not directly targeted for removal from the country.</p>","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143504457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-02-21DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.002
Soomi Lee, Christopher N Kaufmann, Catherine A Lippi, Sadie J Ryan, Yi Guo
{"title":"Untreated insomnia as a contributor to geographic disparities in risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.","authors":"Soomi Lee, Christopher N Kaufmann, Catherine A Lippi, Sadie J Ryan, Yi Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sleep HealthPub Date : 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.003
Joseph M Dzierzewski, Spencer A Nielson
{"title":"Demographic differences in drowsy driving frequency and beliefs among a nationally representative US sample: A brief report from the National Sleep Foundation.","authors":"Joseph M Dzierzewski, Spencer A Nielson","doi":"10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Drowsy driving accounts for a significant proportion of motor vehicle injuries and is a preventable form of impaired driving. There is a limited body of research documenting demographic differences in the frequency and beliefs regarding drowsy driving.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The National Sleep Foundation conducted a national online survey of 1012 adults. Participants answered questions about the frequency of drowsy driving and about their beliefs surrounding drowsy driving.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>About 16% of drivers endorsed driving drowsy at least once a year. Demographic differences in drowsy driving beliefs were observed. Generally, individuals from historically underserved groups reported a higher frequency of drowsy driving than other drowsy drivers.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Drowsy driving might be a sleep health equity issue, and social determinants of health may impact an individual's likelihood of driving drowsy. Future studies are needed to investigate sociocultural factors that could influence drowsy driving behaviors so public health campaigns can be appropriately tailored.</p>","PeriodicalId":48545,"journal":{"name":"Sleep Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}