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Does sleep grow on trees? A longitudinal study to investigate potential prevention of insufficient sleep with different types of urban green space.
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- Street-view greenspace exposure and objective sleep characteristics among children.Environmental research · 2022Article
- The nexus between urban green space, housing type, and mental health.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionTo investigate association between urban green space and prevalent and incident cases of insufficient sleep (<6 h sleep per day).
methodsThis longitudinal study examined the odds of prevalent and incident insufficient sleep in relation to indicators of total green space, tree canopy, open grass and other low-lying vegetation in the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study (baseline 2006-2009; follow-up 2012-2015). Association between green space within 1.6 km road distances and insufficient sleep among 38,982 participants living in Sydney, Wollongong or Newcastle were analysed using multilevel logistic regressions adjusted for confounding.
resultsParticipants with more total green space had lower odds of prevalent insufficient sleep (e.g. ≥30% compared with 0-4% total green space odds ratio (OR) = 0.68, 95% credible interval (95%CI) = 0.53, 0.85). The odds of prevalent insufficient sleep were lower among participants with more tree canopy (e.g. ≥30% compared with 0-9% tree canopy OR = 0.78, 95%CI 0.69, 0.88). The odds of incident insufficient sleep were also lower with more tree canopy (e.g. ≥30% compared with 0-9% tree canopy OR = 0.87, 95%CI = 0.75, 0.99). There were no statistically significant associations between prevalent or incident insufficient sleep with open grass or other low-lying vegetation, nor incident sufficient sleep with total green space.
conclusionsPrioritising restoration and protection of urban tree canopy may help to promote population-wide prevention of insufficient sleep in middle-to-older aged adults.
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