ArticleSleep medicine2022
Discrimination is associated with poor sleep quality in pregnant Black American women.
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- Sleep During Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes From Infancy to Childhood: A Systematic Review.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Evaluating the global prevalence of insomnia during pregnancy through standardized questionnaires and diagnostic criteria: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Sleep Health Disparities: Are Black Women Disadvantaged?Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Joint Effects of Workplace and Everyday Discrimination on Sleep Disturbances: A 9-Year Prospective Cohort Study in U.S. Employees.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Online and offline gendered racial microaggressions and sleep quality for Black women.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Pathways to maternal health inequities: Structural racism, sleep, and physiological stress.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Review
- Socioeconomic status and sleep duration among a representative, cross-sectional sample of US adults.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Prospective Survey of Discrimination in Pregnant Persons and Correlation with Unplanned Healthcare Utilization.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Childhood maltreatment exposure is differentially associated with transdiagnostic perinatal depression symptoms.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Racial discrimination is associated with food insecurity, stress, and worse physical health among college students.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Managing Pregnancy and Nursing Affecting African American Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Clinical Outcomes and Parenthood.Medical research archives · 2023Article
- Intergenerational Effects of Discrimination on Black American Children's Sleep Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHeightened exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination is associated with poorer sleep health among non-pregnant adults. This relationship has received limited research attention among pregnant women, despite the importance of prenatal sleep quality for optimal maternal and child health outcomes.
methodsWe utilized perinatal data from a sample of Black American women (n = 600) participating in a cohort study who reported their lifetime experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination and gendered racial stress during early pregnancy and reported on their sleep quality and depressive symptoms during early and mid-pregnancy. Hierarchical multiple linear regression models were fit to examine associations between lifetime experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination or gendered racial stress and sleep quality during early and mid-pregnancy. We also adjusted for women's concurrent depressive symptoms and tested whether the discrimination/sleep quality association varied by socioeconomic status.
resultsGreater exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination was associated with poorer sleep quality during early (ΔR
conclusionsEfforts to decrease institutional and interpersonal experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination and gendered racism would benefit the sleep quality of pregnant Black American women, particularly during early pregnancy.
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