ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2022
Can the relationship between overweight/obesity and sleep quality be explained by affect and behaviour?
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- Chronotype, Lifestyles, and Anthropometric and Biochemical Indices for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Among Obese Individuals.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The correlation of sleep disorders with postoperative outcomes in spine surgery: A narrative review.North American Spine Society journal · 2025Article
- Associations between mobile phone involvement, BMI levels, and sleep quality among Chinese university students: evidence from a multi-regional large-scale survey.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Sleep Quality and Bariatric Surgery-Can We Treat Sleep Disturbances and Insomnia in Patients with Obesity with Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy?Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Overweight and Obesity Is Associated with Higher Risk of Perceived Stress and Poor Sleep Quality in Young Adults.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- [Factors related to sleep quality in Emergency Medical Technicians and their sleep habits during COVID-19 pandemic.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2023Article
- Staging of obesity-associated hypoventilation in patients with morbid obesity scheduled for bariatric surgery.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
purposeSleep impairment is reported to be a consequence of overweight and obesity. However, the weight-sleep relationship can alternately be explained by demographics (e.g. age) and covariates (i.e. mood/affect and behaviour in overweight/obese people; e.g. night-eating). Thus, we examined the weight-sleep quality relationship after controlling for the effects of affect and common behaviour (i.e. night-eating, insufficient exercise, alcohol and electronic device use).
methodsOnline questionnaires asked 161 overweight, obese or normal-weight participants about their sleep quality, night-eating, physical activity, alcohol use, electronic device use and anxiety and depression at T0 (baseline) and T1 (3 months later). Height and weight and waist and hip circumference were objectively measured at T0 and T1, and physical activity was assessed over 24 h (using actigraphy) at T0 and T1. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses evaluated whether the weight measures (i.e. body-mass-index [BMI], waist-to-hip ratio [WHR] and obesity category [overweight/obese vs. normal-weight]) predicted sleep quality and its components at T0 and T1, after controlling demographics (at step 1) and covariates (affective distress and behaviour) at step 2, and entering weight measures at step 3; maximum 8 variables in the analyses.
resultsHigh BMI predicted several aspects of sleep quality after taking into account co-existing behaviour, affect and demographics: sleep disturbances at T0 and lower sleep efficiency at T1. WHR and obesity category did not predict any aspects of sleep quality. Several co-existing behaviour were related to or predicted sleep quality score and aspects of sleep quality including night-eating, alcohol use and electronic device use and affective symptoms (i.e. anxiety, depression).
conclusionResults suggest that a person's weight may impact on their sleep quality above and beyond the effects of their co-existing behaviour and affect, although their co-existing behaviour and affect may also adversely impact on sleep quality. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, evidence obtained from well-designed cohort.
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