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Published in: Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2/2014

01-04-2014 | Original Article

A 24-hour Approach to the Study of Health Behaviors: Temporal Relationships Between Waking Health Behaviors and Sleep

Authors: Leah A. Irish, Ph.D., Christopher E. Kline, Ph.D., Scott D. Rothenberger, B.S., Robert T. Krafty, Ph.D., Daniel J. Buysse, M.D., Howard M. Kravitz, D.O., M.P.H., Joyce T. Bromberger, Ph.D., Huiyong Zheng, Ph.D., Martica H. Hall, Ph.D.

Published in: Annals of Behavioral Medicine | Issue 2/2014

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Abstract

Background

Although sleep is often associated with waking health behaviors (WHB) such as alcohol consumption, caffeine use, smoking, and exercise, the causal direction of these relationships is unclear.

Purpose

The present study used time series data to examine the temporal dynamics of WHB and sleep characteristics in participants of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation Sleep Study.

Methods

Three hundred three women completed daily assessments of WHB and wore wrist actigraphs to measure sleep characteristics for the duration of the study (mean = 29.42 days, SD = 6.71).

Results

Vector autoregressive modeling revealed that weekly patterns of sleep and WHB best predicted subsequent sleep and WHB suggesting that the associations between WHB and sleep persist beyond their immediate influence. Some WHB predicted some subsequent sleep characteristics, but sleep did not predict subsequent WHB.

Conclusions

These novel findings provide insight into the temporal dynamics of 24-h behaviors and encourage consideration of both sleep and WHB in health promotion and behavior change efforts.
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Metadata
Title
A 24-hour Approach to the Study of Health Behaviors: Temporal Relationships Between Waking Health Behaviors and Sleep
Authors
Leah A. Irish, Ph.D.
Christopher E. Kline, Ph.D.
Scott D. Rothenberger, B.S.
Robert T. Krafty, Ph.D.
Daniel J. Buysse, M.D.
Howard M. Kravitz, D.O., M.P.H.
Joyce T. Bromberger, Ph.D.
Huiyong Zheng, Ph.D.
Martica H. Hall, Ph.D.
Publication date
01-04-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Annals of Behavioral Medicine / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0883-6612
Electronic ISSN: 1532-4796
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-013-9533-3

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