The association of sleep with neighborhood physical and social environment

Hunter, Jaimie C.; Hayden, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2018.05.003

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“…Additionally, Latinas face many environmental barriers that limit their physical activity, including crime, traffic, lack of recreational facilities, and concern about deportation [ 35 , 36 ]. A more favorable neighborhood social environment (i.e., greater social cohesion and safety) has been associated with longer sleep duration [ 37 ]. Over half of perimenopausal Latinas report difficulty sleeping [ 38 ], which has been associated with arterial stiffness [ 39 ].…”

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A multi-component, community-engaged intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in perimenopausal Latinas: pilot study protocol

Cortés

Berry

Perreira

et al. 2021

Pilot Feasibility Stud

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Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk increases substantially during perimenopause. Latinas have a significantly worse CVD risk factor profile than non-Hispanic White women, potentially due to multiple sociocultural and environmental factors. To date, interdisciplinary interventions have not focused on improving nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and biologic CVD risk in perimenopausal Latinas. The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility and initial efficacy of a multi-component intervention to reduce CVD risk in perimenopausal Latinas. Methods This is a two-group, repeated measures experimental study. Eighty perimenopausal Latinas (age 40–55 years) from two community groups will be randomized: one group will complete the intervention; the other will be a wait-list control. The intervention consists of 12-weekly sessions (education, physical activity, stress management, coping skills training), followed by 3 months of continued support, and 6 months of skill maintenance on their own. The primary outcomes include arterial stiffness, blood pressure, lipids, and blood glucose. Secondary outcomes are health behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, sleep, coping strategies), self-efficacy, and other biological factors related to CVD risk (adiposity, C-reactive protein, hair cortisol, vasomotor symptoms). We will assess changes in outcomes from Time 1 (baseline) to Time 2 (6 months) and Time 3 (12 months) using general linear mixed models to test the hypotheses. We will also evaluate the feasibility of the intervention by assessing enrollment and retention rates, barriers, and facilitators to enrollment, intervention fidelity, the suitability of study procedures, and participant satisfaction with the intervention and study protocol. We hypothesize the intervention group will decrease biologic CVD risk and improve health behaviors and self-efficacy significantly more than the wait-list control. Discussion Results from this study will contribute to knowledge on the feasibility of behavioral interventions, including stress management and coping skills training, which could reduce CVD burden among perimenopausal Latinas. Because Hispanic/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United States (US), progress regarding CVD risk among perimenopausal Latinas may lead to significant improvement in the overall CVD burden in the US. Trial registration Prospectively registered, NCT04313751 (03/19/2020), Protocol version 1.0

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A multi-component, community-engaged intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in perimenopausal Latinas: pilot study protocol

Cortés

Berry

Perreira

et al. 2021

Pilot Feasibility Stud

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“…Factors affecting sleep include physiological factors, psychological factors, and external environmental factors [ 21 ]. Optimizing external environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, light intensity, and atmospheric dust [ 22 – 24 ] is an effective means to improve sleep quality.…”

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A Feasibility Study on Smart Mattresses to Improve Sleep Quality

Zhang

Jin

Wan

et al. 2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Good sleep quality is essential, especially for clinical users. Sleep disorders not only impair the success rate of treatment but also delay recovery. They can seriously interfere with treatment outcomes and even endanger a user’s life. In this study, we created a smart mattress containing 10 × 18 air packs and control units. Each air pack contains a set of pressure and height sensors and two air valves. Each row control unit can detect and adjust the pressure and height of each air bag in the row. When the bed body is turned on, it automatically initializes, adjusts the state of each air bag to the same height and pressure, and enters a slow scanning state. When perceived objects or people are lying on the bed, the bed automatically perceives the human body structure and body pressure matrix, increases the scanning speed for more timely and accurate measurements of the digital matrix and forming pressure by matrix-normalized processing, and then uses local pressure variance detection to automatically adjust to the sleeping position of the human body and thus achieve a uniform force distribution and a comfortable state. Finally, pressure matrix binarization was used to match sleeping position templates to identify the best template for automatic recognition of the sleeping position. The experimental results show that the sleeping position recognition method has high accuracy, recall, and precision. Our mattress is designed with interfaces for external devices. In future research, the smart mattress can connect to an auxiliary part of a smart ecosystem consisting of a smart pill box, a smart lighting system, and a microclimate system, which is expected to yield a more comprehensive intelligent ward to explore the possibility of improving sleep quality.

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“…It is not the intention of the review though to offer an exhaustive coverage of all journal articles that have been published on this topic to date. While several recent reviews have either concentrated on how certain environmental factors would play a role in the emergence of sleep problems/conditions more generally (with a limited focus on insomnia symptoms, if any) (e.g., [ 32 , 33 , 34 ••, 35 – 38 ]) or how methodological and demographical disparities (including the rural-urban contrast) might predict reports of inferior sleep health in relatively less well-to-do nations (e.g., [ 39 •]) respectively, the current review is unique in its emphasis on evaluating the overall impact of a variety of urban-prevalent factors (regardless of geographical location) purely on the occurrence of insomnia symptoms as predicted by the perspective of evolutionary mismatch.…”

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The Evolutionarily Mismatched Impact of Urbanization on Insomnia Symptoms: a Short Review of the Recent Literature

Jiaqing

Pugh-Jones

Clark³

et al. 2021

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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Purpose of Review For the most part of human existence, individuals have been living a rural lifestyle in a rural setting. However, such sleep-conducive conditions have largely been transformed dramatically by urbanization within a relatively short span of time in recent history, and the resulting evolved mechanisms-environment mismatch is theorized to bring about an increased risk for insomnia symptoms. This brief review of the recent literature is designed to evaluate the veracity of this proposition. Recent Findings The majority of recent findings have suggested that most proposed evolutionarily mismatched urban factors are indeed related to the presence of insomnia symptoms. However, there is a general paucity of longitudinal evidence (and for some other factors, a lack of enough evidence of any kind). Summary Although there is a preponderance of recent findings indicating a link between evolutionarily mismatched urban phenomena and insomnia symptoms, more longitudinal data are needed before any causative conclusion can be drawn.

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The association of sleep with neighborhood physical and social environment

Abstract: This article provides a critical assessment of the multidimensional relationship between neighborhood physical and social characteristics and sleep, addresses major methodological concerns that limit current empirical knowledge, and suggests steps to shape future research.

Cited by 53 publications

References 31 publications

A multi-component, community-engaged intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in perimenopausal Latinas: pilot study protocol

A multi-component, community-engaged intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in perimenopausal Latinas: pilot study protocol

A Feasibility Study on Smart Mattresses to Improve Sleep Quality

The Evolutionarily Mismatched Impact of Urbanization on Insomnia Symptoms: a Short Review of the Recent Literature

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