Rethinking the sleep-health link.

Lisa Matricciani, Yu Sun Bin, Tea Lallukka, Erkki Kronholm, Melissa Wake, Catherine Paquet, Dorothea Dumuid, Tim Olds

Journal: Sleep health 2019;4(4):339-348

PMID: 30031526

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Abstract

Sleep is important for the physical, social and mental well-being of both children and adults. In this paper, we discuss the need to consider sleep as a multidimensional construct and as a component of total 24-hour activity. First, we make a case for considering sleep as a multidimensional construct, whereby all characteristics of sleep (including duration, quality, timing, and variability) and their links with health are examined. Second, we argue that sleep should also be conceptualized as part of the daily spectrum of time-use, along with other types of activity. We propose novel statistical models, in particular compositional data analysis (CoDA), as appropriate analytical methods for a new sleep paradigm.

Address: Sansom Institute, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].; Sleep Group, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Central Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, NSW, Australia.; Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; The University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand.; Sansom Institute, Centre for Population Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.; Sansom Institute, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.; Sansom Institute, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2018.05.004

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MeSH Terms: Health Status, Humans, Sleep