HALO Scientist Dr. Jean-Philippe Chaput is among the authors on a paper titled “Sex and racial/ethnic differences in sleep quality and its relationship with body weight status among US college students” that was just published in the Journal of the American College Health. The paper looks at sex and racial/ethnic differences in sleep quality and its relationship with body weight status among US college students. Citation details and a summary of the paper are below.
Congratulations, Jean-Philippe and team!
Jaesin Sa, Tonya Samuel, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Joon Chung, Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint & Jounghee Lee (2020) Sex and racial/ethnic differences in sleep quality and its relationship with body weight status among US college students, Journal of American College Health, 68:7, 704-711, DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2019.1594829
ABSTRACT
Objective: To examine sex and racial/ethnic differences in sleep quality and the association between sleep quality and body weight status among US college students. Participants: A nationally representative sample (N = 324,767) of college students from 2011 to 2015. Methods: A secondary data analysis of cross-sectional data. Results: Women showed poorer sleep quality (nights per week getting enough sleep to feel rested) than men (4.00 versus 4.34 days; p < .001). In both men and women, compared with non-Hispanic whites, racial/ethnic minorities showed lower sleep quality (p < .001). Compared with normal weight participants, overweight participants had poorer sleep quality (p = .007) among men, and both overweight (p = .004) and obese participants (p < .001) had lower sleep quality among women. Conclusions: Understanding sex and racial/ethnic sleep differences and the association between sleep and body weight status is important for colleges to promote college students’ healthy sleep.
The full-text article can be accessed here.
