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Trial reportSleep health2019

Walk to a better night of sleep: testing the relationship between physical activity and sleep.

Alycia N Sullivan Bisson, Stephanie A Robinson, Margie E Lachman

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
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Trial report in Sleep health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alycia N Sullivan BissonPsychology Department, Brandeis University, MS 062, 415 S St Waltham, MA, USA 02453. Electronic address: alyciansullivan@brandeis.edu.
Stephanie A RobinsonCenter for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bldg 70, 200 Springs Rd, Bedford, MA, USA, 01732.
Margie E LachmanPsychology Department, Brandeis University, MS 062, 415 S St Waltham, MA, USA, 02453.

Funding

Core B - Pilot StudiesP30AG048785 · NIA · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI LACHMAN, MARGIE E · 2014 to 2023
$4.5M
TRAINING IN COGNITIVE AGING IN A SOCIAL CONTEXTT32AG000204 · NIA · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI WINGFIELD, ARTHUR · 1990 to 2017
$2.8M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG048785NIA NIH HHS T32 AG000204
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesMany do not sleep well, particularly middle-aged and older adults. Physical activity (PA) shows promise for improving sleep; however, populations with clinical sleep disturbances have been a research focus. It remains unclear whether low-impact daily PA, like walking, can affect sleep in healthy adults.

designThe current study was embedded within a 4-week randomized controlled trial to increase PA.

settingParticipants from the greater Boston area were recruited to participate in a 4-week walking intervention on a rolling basis between October 2015 and August 2016.

participantsFifty-nine participants (72% female) were enrolled in the study, with an average age of 49.43 (±8.40) years.

interventionThe 4-week intervention was aimed at increasing participants' daily steps as the primary outcome. The current, supplementary study examined relationships between monthly and daily PA and sleep. MEASUREMENTS: Steps and active minutes were measured daily using a Fitbit Zip. Self-reports of sleep quality and duration were assessed daily, along with before and after the intervention. RESULTS AND

conclusionsAveraged across the month, daily active minutes were positively related to sleep quality but not duration. Sex moderated this relationship; women who took more steps and were more active reported sleeping better than those less active. Within persons, on days that participants were more active than average, they reported better sleep quality and duration in both sexes. Results suggest that low-impact PA is positively related to sleep, more so in women than men. Findings also showed that PA plays a greater role in predicting sleep quality than duration.

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AdultBostonFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSleepTime FactorsWalking

Identifiers

PMID31358470
PMCPMC6801055

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