ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2021
Violent crime, police presence and poor sleep in two low-income urban predominantly Black American neighbourhoods.
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- Neighborhoods and sleep health among adults: A systematic review.Sleep health · 2022Pooled it
- Short and disrupted sleep is related to perceptions of neighborhood in pregnant African American women of low socioeconomic status.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Associations between neighborhood factors and insomnia and their spatial clustering in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Sleep health · 2025Article
- The impact of neighborhood deprivation on sleep and circadian health in a large US cohort.Sleep health · 2025Article
- Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and Sleep in Australian Adults.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine violent crime in relation to sleep and explore pathways, including psychological distress, safety perceptions and perceived police presence, that may account for associations.
methodsIn 2018, 515 predominantly Black American (94%) adults (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) provided survey data: actigraphy-assessed sleep duration and wakefulness after sleep onset (WASO). We estimated pathways from violent crime (2016-2018) to sleep through psychological distress, perceptions of safety and perceived adequacy of police presence.
resultsWASO was most strongly associated with violent crimes that were within 1/10 mile of the participant's home and within the month preceding the interview. Violent crimes were associated with lower perceived safety (β=-0.13 (0.03), p<0.001) and greater WASO (β=5.96 (2.80), p=0.03). We observed no indirect associations between crime and either WASO or sleep duration through any of the tested mediators. Crime was not associated with sleep duration.
conclusionsWe demonstrated that more proximal and more recent violent crimes were associated with reduced perceived safety and worse WASO. Differential exposure to violent crime among Black Americans may contribute to health disparities by reducing residents' perceived safety and sleep health.
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