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Social Media Use Before Bed and Sleep Disturbance Among Young Adults in the United States: A Nationally Representative Study.
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- Online Social Networking as a Social Zeitgeber.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- The association between bedtime smartphone use and anxiety symptoms: a network analysis of Chinese residents.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Electronic Screen Use and Sleep Duration and Timing in Adults.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Poor sleep quality among bedtime smartphone user medical students in Ethiopia, 2024.Sleep medicine: X · 2024Article
- Social determinants of health at multiple socio-ecological levels and sleep health in adolescents: A scoping review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2024Article
- Effects and Mechanisms of TikTok Use on Self-Rated Health of Older Adults in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mediation Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mechanisms Linking Social Media Use and Sleep in Emerging Adults in the United States.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cross-lagged panel analysis of the relationship between social networking sites use (SNSU) and sleep problems among university students.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Self-Selected Versus Assigned Target to Reduce Smartphone Use and Improve Mental Health: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
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Abstract
Study Objectives: Social media (SM) use has been positively associated with disturbed sleep among young adults. However, previous studies have not elucidated the specific importance of SM use immediately before bed. We aimed to determine the independent association of SM use during the 30 minutes before bed and disturbed sleep while controlling for covariates including total SM use throughout the day. Methods: We assessed a nationally representative sample of 1763 US young adults aged 19-32. Participants estimated to what extent they used SM in the 30 minutes before bed. We assessed sleep disturbance using the brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Sleep Disturbance measure. After testing the proportional odds assumption, we used ordered logistic regression to compute the independent association between SM use before bed and sleep disturbance controlling for covariates, including total SM use. Results: Compared with those who rarely or very rarely check SM in the 30 minutes before bed, those who often or very often check SM at that time had an adjusted odds ratio of 1.62 (95% confidence interval = 1.31-2.34) for increased sleep disturbance. Additionally, we found a significant linear trend in the odds ratios between the frequency of checking SM in the 30 minutes before bed and increased sleep disturbance (p = .007). Results were consistent in all sensitivity analyses. Conclusions: SM use in the 30 minutes before bed is independently associated with disturbed sleep among young adults. Future work should use qualitative and experimental methods to further elucidate the directionality of-and mechanisms underlying-this association.
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