ArticleJournal of aging and physical activity2020
Physical Activity and Insomnia Symptoms Over 10 Years in a U.S. National Sample of Late-Middle-Age and Older Adults: Age Matters.
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- The moderating effects of physical activity on social anxiety and sleep disturbance: managing gaming disorder in young e-sports players.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Use of mHealth Technologies to Increase Sleep Quality among Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Clocks & sleep · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on physical activity, insomnia, and loneliness among Spanish women and men.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Longitudinal associations between time-varying insomnia symptoms and all-cause health care services utilization among middle-aged and older adults in the United States.Health services research · 2022Article
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- Sleep Disturbances and Their Association With Quality of Life in Older Psychiatric Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2022Article
- Insomnia symptoms and incident heart failure: a population-based cohort study.European heart journal · 2021Article
- The Evolutionarily Mismatched Impact of Urbanization on Insomnia Symptoms: a Short Review of the Recent Literature.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Effects of Physical Exercise on Autophagy and Apoptosis in Aged Brain: Human and Animal Studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Review
- Examining the Association of Pain and Financial Hardship Among Older Men by Race in the United States.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
Research suggests that physical activity may influence sleep, yet more research is needed before it can be considered a frontline treatment for insomnia. Less is known about how this relationship is moderated by age. Using multilevel modeling, we examined self-reported physical activity and insomnia symptoms in 18,078 respondents from the U.S. nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (2004-2014). The mean baseline age was 64.7 years, with 53.9% female. Individuals who reported more physical activity (B = -0.005, p < .001) had fewer insomnia symptoms. Over 10 years, the respondents reported fewer insomnia symptoms at times when they reported more physical activity than was average for them (B = -0.003, p < .001). Age moderated this relationship (B = 0.0002, p < .01). Although modest, these findings concur with the literature, suggesting moderate benefits of physical activity for sleep in older adults. Future research should aim to further elucidate this relationship among adults at advanced ages.
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