作者
Brian N Chin, Eunjin L Tracy, H Matt Lehrer, Lucas W Carroll, Precious N Lacey, Sarah K Kimutis, Daniel J Buysse, Martica H Hall
发表日期
2022/5/4
期刊
Behavioral sleep medicine
卷号
20
期号
3
页码范围
337-342
出版商
Taylor & Francis
简介
Background
Growing evidence has documented the adverse impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on sleep quality among older adults. Given the negative consequences of poor sleep, it is critical to identify factors that provide older adults with resilience against worsening sleep quality. Social integration may represent one such resilience factor.
Purpose
This study evaluated the association of social integration and sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods
113 retired older adults completed assessments of their social integration after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and of their sleep quality before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results
Higher levels of social integration were associated with better sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic, even when statistically controlling for pre-pandemic sleep quality. Sex-stratified analyses showed that this association was driven by …
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