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Nutakor JA, Zhou L, Larnyo E, Gavu AK, Chohan IM, Addai-Dansoh S, Tripura D. The Relationship Between Social Capital and Sleep Duration Among Older Adults in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int J Public Health 2023; 68:1605876. [PMID: 37457843 PMCID: PMC10338686 DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1605876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Objective: This study aims to investigate the connection between social capital and sleep duration among older adults in Ghana, as limited research has been conducted to explore this relationship. Methods: This study utilized Wave 2 data from a sample of Ghanaian older adults from the World Health Organization Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Self-reported data on social capital and sleep duration were compiled. Using ordered logistic regression, the relationship between social capital and sleep duration was examined. Results: Older adults who did not participate in social activities showed the strongest association with the risk of short sleep (p < 0.05). Our study found that older adults who sleep for shorter periods tend to report better sleep quality. There was no correlation between medium and long sleep durations and social capital. Conclusion: This study underscores the importance of more research to truly understand the complex connections between older adults' social participation, sleep, and health. It also has important implications for the promotion of good sleep in aging populations.
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- School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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- Center for Black Studies Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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- Department of Educational Administration, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Kuurdor EDM, Tanaka H, Kitajima T, Amexo JX, Sokejima S. Social Capital and Self-Rated Health: A Cross-Sectional Study among Rural Japanese Working Residents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:14018. [PMID: 36360898 PMCID: PMC9658323 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192114018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Social capital is positively associated with self-rated health; however, this association among workers is still unclear. Thus, this study examined the relationship between social capital and self-rated health with special attention to the employment type. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 6160 workers aged 20-64 years from two towns in Mie Prefecture in January-March 2013. Social capital was assessed using five items in 4816 income-earning workers. The social capital scores were summed and then divided into three groups. The self-rated health responses were dichotomised into 'poor' and 'good'. The association was examined using a stepwise binomial logistic regression stratified by employment type and adjusted for potential confounders. Regular employees with low social capital had a higher significant odds ratio of poor self-rated health than medium (OR 0.58 95% CIs 0.39-0.87) and high (OR 0.39; 95% CIs 0.26-0.59) social capital levels after controlling for all potential confounders. Similar patterns were observed for non-regular employees with medium and high social capital. There was a significant relationship between some indicators of social capital and poor self-rated health among self-employees. These results highlight that social capital acts as an unequal health resource for different types of workers.
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- Elijah Deku-Mwin Kuurdor
- Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu-shi 514-8507, Japan
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- Division of Surveillance and Policy Evaluation, Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, 5-1-1, Tsukuji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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- Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu-shi 514-8507, Japan
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- Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu-shi 514-8507, Japan
- Department of Clinical Research, National Hospital Organization, Mie National Hospital, Tsu-shi 514-0125, Japan
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- Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174 Edobashi, Tsu-shi 514-8507, Japan
- Epidemiology Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Mie University Hospital, Tsu-shi 514-8507, Japan
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Ben Simon E, Vallat R, Rossi A, Walker MP. Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001733. [PMID: 35998121 PMCID: PMC9398015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Humans help each other. This fundamental feature of homo sapiens has been one of the most powerful forces sculpting the advent of modern civilizations. But what determines whether humans choose to help one another? Across 3 replicating studies, here, we demonstrate that sleep loss represents one previously unrecognized factor dictating whether humans choose to help each other, observed at 3 different scales (within individuals, across individuals, and across societies). First, at an individual level, 1 night of sleep loss triggers the withdrawal of help from one individual to another. Moreover, fMRI findings revealed that the withdrawal of human helping is associated with deactivation of key nodes within the social cognition brain network that facilitates prosociality. Second, at a group level, ecological night-to-night reductions in sleep across several nights predict corresponding next-day reductions in the choice to help others during day-to-day interactions. Third, at a large-scale national level, we demonstrate that 1 h of lost sleep opportunity, inflicted by the transition to Daylight Saving Time, reduces real-world altruistic helping through the act of donation giving, established through the analysis of over 3 million charitable donations. Therefore, inadequate sleep represents a significant influential force determining whether humans choose to help one another, observable across micro- and macroscopic levels of civilized interaction. The implications of this effect may be non-trivial when considering the essentiality of human helping in the maintenance of cooperative, civil society, combined with the reported decline in sufficient sleep in many first-world nations.
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- Eti Ben Simon
- Center for Human Sleep Science, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Center for Human Sleep Science, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Center for Human Sleep Science, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Center for Human Sleep Science, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Kim B, Branas CC, Rudolph KE, Morrison CN, Chaix B, Troxel WM, Duncan DT. Neighborhoods and sleep health among adults: A systematic review. Sleep Health 2022; 8:322-333. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2022.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yang L, Wang H, Cheng J. Association between social capital and sleep duration among rural older adults in China. BMC Public Health 2022; 22:12. [PMID: 34986811 PMCID: PMC8734274 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-12441-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Sleep disturbances are great challenges to older adults' health promotion. The study tested gender differences in the association between different dimensions of social capital and self-reported sleep duration of Chinese rural older adults. DESIGN The data of rural older adults were extracted from a national cross-sectional survey of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and analyzed in this study. SETTING CLHLS covered 23 provinces in China. PARTICIPANTS The 6552 rural respondents aged ≥65 years old were involved. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Generalized trust, informal social participation, formal social participation and social support were used to assess social capital. Self-reported sleep duration was measured as health outcome. RESULTS Low level of generalized trust had harmful effect on insufficient sleep (AOR 1.110, 95% CI 1.018-1.324), and having no formal or informal social participation was significantly positively associated with long sleep (AORformal 1.424, 95% CI 1.007-2.013; AORinformal 1.241, 95% CI 1.016-1.516). Rural older female adults with no emotional social support had higher odds of insufficient sleep (AOR 1.502, 95% CI 1.258-1.978). Meanwhile, both informal and formal social participation showed inverse association with long sleep for females. CONCLUSIONS This study found the relationship between social capital, sleep duration and the gender differences in Chinese rural older adults. More targeted sleep disturbance interventions could be taken in social capital of rural older adults, and gender differences should be considered when making social capital-embedded health promotion policies and interventions.
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- Le Yang
- School of Management, Shanxi Medical University, 56 Xinjian South Road, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China.
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- School of Health Humanities, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian, Beijing, China
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- School of Management, Shanxi Medical University, 56 Xinjian South Road, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China
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Simonelli G, Petit D, Delage JP, Michaud X, Lavoie MD, Morin CM, Godbout R, Robillard R, Vallières A, Carrier J, Bastien C. Sleep in times of crises: A scoping review in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis. Sleep Med Rev 2021; 60:101545. [PMID: 34571477 PMCID: PMC8461524 DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2021.101545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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During the early days of the pandemic and in the context of a seemingly unknown global threat, several potential major sleep disruptors were identified by sleep researchers and practitioners across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic combined several features that, individually, had been shown to negatively affect sleep health in the general population. Those features included state of crisis, restrictions on in-person social interactions, as well as financial adversity. To address the lack of a comprehensive summary of sleep research across these three distinctive domains, we undertook three parallel systematic reviews based on the following themes: 1) Sleep in times of crises; 2) Sleep and social isolation; and 3) Sleep and economic uncertainty. Using a scoping review framework, we systematically identified and summarized findings from these three separated bodies of works. Potential moderating factors such as age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, psychological predisposition, occupation and other personal circumstances are also discussed. To conclude, we propose novel lines of research necessary to alleviate the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crises and highlight the need to prepare the deployment of sleep solutions in future crises.
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- Guido Simonelli
- Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux Du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montreal (Quebec) Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada; Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
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- Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux Du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montreal (Quebec) Canada; Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
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- Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux Du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montreal (Quebec) Canada; Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
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- École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec (Québec), Canada; CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada; Sleep Laboratory & Clinic, Hôpital en Santé Mentale Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
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- Sleep Research Unit, Royal Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada
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- École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec (Québec), Canada; CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Canada
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- Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux Du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montreal (Quebec) Canada; Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
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- École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec (Québec), Canada; CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Canada.
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Hanibuchi T, Nakaya T, Kitajima T, Yatsuya H. Associations of insomnia with noise annoyance and neighborhood environments: A nationwide cross-sectional study in Japan. Prev Med Rep 2021; 23:101416. [PMID: 34150475 PMCID: PMC8190462 DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Data on the association between insomnia and neighborhood noise are lacking. Insomnia is associated with noise annoyance from the neighborhood. Neighborhood noise should be considered in health and urban policy planning.
Despite the increasing knowledge on the association between neighborhood and health, few studies have investigated sleep disorders in Japan, particularly the impact of neighborhood noise on sleep. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the associations between insomnia symptoms and annoyance because of traffic and neighborhood noise in Japan, which has different neighborhood conditions compared with those of the western societies. Neighborhood built and socioeconomic environments roles were also examined. We used nationwide cross-sectional data collected through a 2015 online survey of Japanese adults aged 20–64 years (n = 4,243). Adjusted prevalence ratios for insomnia according to the exposures were estimated using the multilevel Poisson regression models. The results showed that having insomnia was significantly associated with experiencing neighborhood and traffic-noise annoyance. Neighborhood noise had a stronger and independent association with insomnia. However, the neighborhood environmental variables, including population density, deprivation index, and access to commercial areas, were not associated with insomnia. In conclusion, noise annoyance, particularly that sourced from neighbors, is an important factor in relation to sleep health. Health and urban-planning policymakers should consider neighborhood noise, in addition to traffic noise, as health-related issues in residential neighborhoods.
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- Tomoya Hanibuchi
- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Corresponding author at: Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 468-1 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8572, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Public Health, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan
- Department of Public Health and Health Systems, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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Wang L, Li J, Wang Z, Du Y, Sun T, Na L, Niu Y. Social capital and cognitive decline: Does sleep duration mediate the association? PLoS One 2021; 16:e0252208. [PMID: 34043692 PMCID: PMC8158899 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Studies have found that social capital (SC) is associated with the risk of cognitive decline; however, the mechanism explaining how SC leads to cognitive decline is unclear. The current study examines the mediation effect of sleep duration on the relationship between SC and cognitive decline in Chinese older adults. Methods A cross-sectional study of 955 community-dwelling aged 60 or over was conducted. The mini-mental state examination (MMSE), self-report sleep duration questionnaire, and social capital scales were administered during the face-to-face survey. The Bootstrap methods PROCESS program is employed to test the mediation model. Results After controlling for covariates, both social cohesion and social interaction were positively correlated with the MMSE score (p<0.001), and social cohesion was negatively correlated with sleep duration (p = 0.009); On the contrary, sleep duration was negatively correlated with MMSE score (p<0.001). Linear regression analysis showed social cohesion was positively associated with the MMSE score (β = 0.16, p = 0.005), while sleep duration was associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline (β = -0.72, p<0.001). Sleep duration has mediated the relationship between social cohesion and cognitive decline (explaining 21.7% of the total variance). Conclusions Social capital negatively associated with the risk of cognitive decline in this Chinese population, and sleep duration may partly explain this relationship. It may be a suggestive clue to identify those at a higher risk of progressing to cognitive impairment. Further prospective study in need to confirm this finding due to the cross-sectional design.
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- Liqun Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health and Management at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health and Management at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Statistics at School of Public Health of Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China
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- Surgical Laboratory of General Hospital, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,School of Clinical Medicine at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Surgical Laboratory of General Hospital, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Surgical Laboratory of General Hospital, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ningxia Ethnomedicine Modernization, Ministry of Education, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.,School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
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Ciren W, Yu W, Nima Q, Xiao X, Zhou J, Suolang D, Li Y, Zhao X, Jia P, Yang S. Social capital and sleep disorders in Tibet, China. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:591. [PMID: 33765991 PMCID: PMC7992333 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-10626-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Objective Sleep plays an important role in the health and well-being of middle aged and elderly people, and social capital may be one of the important factors for sleep disorders. This study aimed to understand the relationship between social capital and sleep disorders in a unique region of China –Tibet that generally has the disadvantaged economic status compared to other parts of China. Methods The study was based on Tibetan data from The China Multi-Ethnic Cohort (CMEC) and was conducted from May 2018 to September 2019. A total of 3194 Tibetans aged > 50 were selected from the community population by multi-stage stratified cluster sampling. Social capital was measured using two validated health-related social capital scales, family/community and society.. Sleep disorders were measured as the presence of disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep, early morning awakening, or daytime dysfunction. Logistic regression models were applied to examine the association between social capital and sleep disorders. Results 39.9% (1271/3194) of the participants had sleep disorders. In addition, after controlling for all potential variables, family social capital was significantly negatively associated with sleep disorders (OR = 0.95, P < 0.05), while community and society social capital was not associated with sleep disorders. Then, when we did all the sex-stratified analyses, the significant association between social capital and sleep disorders was found only in women (OR = 0.94, P < 0.05), while no association was found in males; neither males nor females showed any association with community and society social capital. Conclusion Our study would help to better understand the extent of health inequality in China, and guide future interventions, strategies and policies to promote sleep quality in low-income areas, taking into account both the role of Tibetan specific cultural traditions, lifestyles and religious beliefs in social capital and the gender differences in social capital. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10626-x.
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- Wangla Ciren
- Lhasa Chengguan District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Lhasa, 850000, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Tibet autonomous region, Lhasa, 850000, China.
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Tibet autonomous region, Lhasa, 850000, China
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- Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Tibet autonomous region, Lhasa, 850000, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.,International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), Hong Kong, China
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- West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. .,International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), Hong Kong, China.
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Cui GH, Li SJ, Yin YT, Chen LJ, Li JQ, Liang FY, Liu XY, Chen L. The relationship among social capital, eHealth literacy and health behaviours in Chinese elderly people: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:45. [PMID: 33407275 PMCID: PMC7789238 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-10037-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Social capital has been linked to health behaviours, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. Previous studies have found that health literacy played the role of a mediator in the relationships among social capital, individual physical activity and nutrition. But it is not clear whether eHealth literacy mediates the impact of social capital on health behaviours. Therefore, our research aimed to explore the relationships among social capital (structural and cognitive social capital), eHealth literacy, and the health behaviours of elderly people, and to analyse the mediating effect of eHealth literacy, while providing a theoretical basis for a health behaviour intervention for elderly people. Methods From January to February 2019, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1201 Chinese people aged over 60 years using the Chinese Shortened Social Capital Scale (contains two subscales of structural social capital and cognitive social capital), eHealth Literacy Scale, and Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile. We used structural equation modelling to test a hypothetical mediation model. Results The mean scores of social capital was 72.07 (SD = 13.03), 17.24 (SD = 9.34) for eHealth literacy, and 112.23 (SD = 23.25) for health behaviours. Social capital and eHealth literacy were significantly correlated with health behaviours, and social capital and structural social capital were significantly correlated with eHealth literacy. Lastly, eHealth literacy mediated the relationship between structural social capital and health behaviours. Conclusions eHealth literacy was an important mediating factor for elderly people’s structural social capital and health behaviours. Therefore, social capital and eHealth literacy must be considered when designing and implementing health behaviour intervention programmes for elderly people.
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- Guang-Hui Cui
- School of Acupuncture and Tuina, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China
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- Department of Social Medicine and Health Service Management, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, China
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- School of Nursing, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China.
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- School of Nursing, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China.
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- School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China
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- School of Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China
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- School of Acupuncture and Tuina, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, 250355, China
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Tomfohr-Madsen L, Cameron EE, Dhillon A, MacKinnon A, Hernandez L, Madigan S, Tough S. Neighborhood socioeconomic status and child sleep duration: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep Health 2020; 6:550-562. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Luo M, Ding D, Bauman A, Negin J, Phongsavan P. Social engagement pattern, health behaviors and subjective well-being of older adults: an international perspective using WHO-SAGE survey data. BMC Public Health 2020; 20:99. [PMID: 31973695 PMCID: PMC6979381 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7841-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Social engagement forms the basis of social relationships by providing a sense of belonging, social identity, and fulfillment. Previous research demonstrates that social engagement was associated with positive health behaviors among older adults. However, the results have been different across health-related behaviors, and mostly based on data from high-income countries. For example, studies from the US and UK showed that social engagement was protective against smoking, while others found social engagement encouraged more smoking in many Asian cultures. In this study, we aim to examine the association between social engagement and a range of health-related behaviors and subjective well-being among older adults in six low- to middle-income countries. METHODS Data from the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE Wave 1) were used. A total of 33,338 individuals aged 50 and older in China, Russia, India, Ghana, South Africa, and Mexico were included. Social engagement, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep duration, depression symptoms, self-rated health status, and quality of life were assessed using established self-reported measures. Multiple logistic regression models were used to examine the relationship between social engagement and nine outcome variables, adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics. RESULTS Lower levels of social engagement were positively related to physical inactivity, prolonged sitting time, unhealthy sleep duration, perceived depression, poor self-rated health, and low quality of life. However, the associations between social engagement and tobacco use, excessive drinking, and insufficient fruit and vegetable intake were mixed across countries. CONCLUSION This international study found high social engagement as a potential health-promoting factor in some low- to middle-income countries. Although the impacts of social engagement on tobacco and alcohol use and diet were complicated and culture-specific, interventions at both individual and community levels should encourage healthy lifestyles through positive social engagement.
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- Mengyun Luo
- The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health and Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
- School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200025 People’s Republic of China
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- The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health and Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
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- The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health and Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
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- The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health and Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
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- The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health and Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
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Chen WL, Zhang CG, Cui ZY, Wang JY, Zhao J, Wang JW, Wang X, Yu JM. The impact of social capital on physical activity and nutrition in China: the mediating effect of health literacy. BMC Public Health 2019; 19:1713. [PMID: 31856789 PMCID: PMC6924071 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-8037-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background Physical activity and good nutrition are important behavioral factors in promoting health and preventing disease. It is important to understand the factors affecting physical activity and nutrition. The purpose of this study was to explore whether social capital has an effect on physical activity and nutrition, and whether health literacy plays a mediating role between social capital and physical activity as well as nutrition. Methods This cross-sectional study was performed in a certain district of Shanghai in March and April 2017. Data was collected using a self-reported questionnaire, which included questions on sociodemographic characteristics, social capital, health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle profile-II. Health-promoting lifestyle profile-II measures the behaviours or habits of physical activity and healthy nutrition. An explore factor analysis of the principal components with varimax rotation was carried out on the social capital scale. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize the sociodemographic of participants. Mediation analysis was performed using the bootstrapping tests to examine whether health literacy mediate the relationship between social capital and physical activity as well as nutrition. Results The explore factor analysis results showed that social capital has five dimensions, namely social participation, social support, social network, control over life and feelings about the community. There is a positive correlation between social capital, health literacy, physical activity and nutrition. The correlation coefficient varied from 0.135 to 0.594. Mediation analysis demonstrated health literacy played a partial mediating effect between social capital and physical activity as well as nutrition. In the relationship between physical activity and social capital, the indirect effect of health literacy accounted for 8.20 to 12.65% of the total effect. In the relationship between nutrition and social capital, the mediation effect of health literacy accounted for 4.93 to 12.71% of the total effect. Conclusion Social capital can promote physical activity and nutrition by disseminating health information. Enhancing the social capital of residents will help increase physical activity and develop healthy eating habits. Attention should also be paid to the improvement of residents’ health literacy.
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- , Xuhui District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 50 Yongchuan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
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- , Xuhui District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 50 Yongchuan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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- Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment of National Health Commission, School of Public Health, Fudan University, No. 130 Dong'an Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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- Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment of National Health Commission, School of Public Health, Fudan University, No. 130 Dong'an Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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- Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment of National Health Commission, School of Public Health, Fudan University, No. 130 Dong'an Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
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- , Xuhui District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No. 50 Yongchuan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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- Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment of National Health Commission, School of Public Health, Fudan University, No. 130 Dong'an Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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Social Epidemiology of Sleep: Extant Evidence and Future Directions. CURR EPIDEMIOL REP 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s40471-019-00219-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Robbins R, Jean-Louis G, Gallagher RA, Hale L, Branas CC, Gooneratne N, Alfonso-Miller P, Perlis M, Grandner MA. Examining social capital in relation to sleep duration, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness. Sleep Med 2019; 60:165-172. [PMID: 31175050 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Sleep, which plays an important role in health and well-being, is socially patterned such that certain demographic groups have worse sleep health than others. One possible mechanism driving sleep disparities is social capital. The current study examines the association between social capital and self-reported sleep variables (eg, duration, insomnia symptoms, and daytime sleepiness) among a sample of 1007 participants from the Sleep Health and Activity, Diet and Environment Study (SHADES). METHODS Logistic regressions were used to estimate whether the sleep variables were associated with social capital measures. All models control for age, sex, race/ethnicity (Non-Hispanic White, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and multicultural/other), income, and education (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, and college graduate). RESULTS Lower likelihood of membership in groups was seen for long sleepers (>9hrs, p-value<0.05) and beliefs that neighbors rarely/never help each other was more likely among short sleepers (5-6hrs, p-value<0.05), relative to 7-8 h sleepers. A decreased sense of belonging was seen among short sleepers (5-6hrs, p-value<0.05). Decreased likelihood of trust was reported by those with moderate-severe insomnia (p-value<0.05). Similarly, neighborhood improvement efforts were less likely among individuals with moderate-to-severe insomnia (p-value<0.05). CONCLUSIONS Results of our study show that short and long sleep duration, as well as insomnia, were inversely related to measures of social capital, such as group memberships and a sense of neighborhood belonging. Future research may explore the directionality of the relationship between social capital and sleep and perhaps consider future interventions to improve low social capital and/or poor sleep in community samples.
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- Rebecca Robbins
- Department of Population Health, Center for Healthful Behavior Change, NYU School of Medicine, 180 Madison Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Population Health, Center for Healthful Behavior Change, NYU School of Medicine, 180 Madison Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Family, Population, & Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Level 3, Room 071, 11794-8338, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, Rm 1508, 10032, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Sleep and Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 2800 E. Ajo Way, 85713, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 670, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Sleep and Health Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 2800 E. Ajo Way, 85713, Tucson, AZ, USA
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