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Predictors of persistent sleep problems among older disaster survivors: a natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.
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- Socially-supported sleep in older adults aged 50 and older: a concept analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- The Relationship Between Post-earthquake Trauma Levels and Sleep Quality in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Correlation Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Sleep Hygiene in Adults Surviving the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- Behavioral activation is associated with post-disaster mental health: Secondary longitudinal analysis from a population-based study.Journal of clinical psychology · 2024Article
- The Migrant-Local Difference in the Relationship Between Social Support, Sleep Disturbance, and Loneliness Among Older Adults in China: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
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- The Kesennuma Study in Miyagi, Japan: Study Design and Baseline Profiles of Participants.Journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Day-to-day associations between nightly sleep and next-day well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic in North America.Sleep health · 2021Article
- Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sleep Problems among Disaster Victims: A Long-Term Survey on the Life Changes of Disaster Victims in Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Estimated Sleep Duration Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Major Metropolitan Areas on Different Continents: Observational Study of Smartphone App Data.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Observational
- Caring for the carers: Advice for dealing with sleep problems of hospital staff during the COVID-19 outbreak.Journal of sleep research · 2021Article
- Google Trends reveals increases in internet searches for insomnia during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
- Psychological distress and sleep problems when people are under interpersonal isolation during an epidemic: A nationwide multicenter cross-sectional study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2020Article
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Abstract
Study Objectives: To examine prospectively the associations of disaster experiences and social support with sleep problems in older adults. Methods: Data came from a natural experiment caused by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. Participants in an ongoing prospective cohort (3547 Japanese individuals aged 65 years or older) were inadvertently exposed to the disaster due to their residential location (Iwanuma city) after the 2010 baseline survey. We conducted a follow-up survey in 2013 to inquire about disaster-related experiences and short sleep duration, sleep insufficiency, poor sleep quality, insomnia symptoms, and sleep medication use. Poisson regression models adjusted for baseline socio-demographic and lifestyle covariates. Results: Financial hardship predicted increased risks of short sleep duration (relative risk [RR] = 1.40; 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.03, 1.90]), sleep insufficiency (RR = 1.29; 95% CI [1.01, 1.66]), poor sleep quality (RR = 1.47; 95% CI [1.26, 1.70]), and insomnia symptoms (RR = 1.13; 95% CI [1.01, 1.28]). Home destruction predicted sleep medication use while health care disruption predicted poor sleep quality. Loss of close relatives or friends did not predict any sustained sleep problems. Additionally, having instrumental support reduced risks of all sleep problems while having emotional support reduced risk of poor sleep quality. Conclusions: Approximately 2.5 years after the disaster, older survivors' sleep problems were more durably linked to material aspects of disaster damage than to loss of loved ones. Findings could inform targeted recovery efforts for groups with greatest need to promote older survivors' sleep health and overall well-being.
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