Perceived neighborhood quality, sleep quality, and health status: evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
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Why does living in a disadvantaged neighborhood predict poorer mental and physical health? Recent research focusing on the Southwestern United States suggests that disadvantaged neighborhoods favor poor health, in part, because they undermine sleep quality. Building on previous research, we test whether this process extends to the Midwestern United States. Specifically, we use cross-sectional data from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), a statewide probability sample of Wisconsin adults, to examine whether associations among perceived neighborhood quality (e.g., perceptions of crime, litter, and pleasantness in the neighborhood) and health status (overall self-rated health and depression) are mediated by overall sleep quality (measured as self-rated sleep quality and physician diagnosis of sleep apnea). We find that perceptions of low neighborhood quality are associated with poorer self-rated sleep quality, poorer self-rated health, and more depressive symptoms. We also observe that poorer self-rated sleep quality is associated with poorer self-rated health and more depressive symptoms. Our mediation analyses indicate that self-rated sleep quality partially mediates the link between perceived neighborhood quality and health status. Specifically, self-rated sleep quality explains approximately 20% of the association between neighborhood quality and self-rated health and nearly 19% of the association between neighborhood quality and depression. Taken together, these results confirm previous research and extend the generalizability of the indirect effect of perceived neighborhood context on health status through sleep quality.
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Neighborhoods that are crime-ridden, not socially cohesive, and dirty are associated with worse sleep quality.
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- Authors
- Hale, L., Hill, T. D., Friedman, E., Javier Nieto, F., Galvao, L. W., Engelman, C. D., Malecki, K. M. C., & Peppard, P. E.
- Affiliations
- Stony Brook University (US)
- Florida State University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hale, Lauren
- ORCID
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-02
- Volume
- 79
- Pages
- 16-22
- ISSN
- 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3733364
- OpenAlex
- W1976197892
- Cited by
- 199
- References
- 76
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- FWCI
- 10.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000427)
- National Institute on Aging (K01AG029381, R01AG036838)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (RC2HL101468)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR025011)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21HD060208)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Keywords
- sleep quality, self-rated health, depression, sleep apnea, neighborhood disadvantage, crime perception, litter, mediation, Wisconsin
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Status, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Residence Characteristics, Sleep, Wisconsin, Young Adult
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