Bidirectional Day-to-Day Associations of Reported Sleep Duration With Accelerometer Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Among Dutch Adolescents: An Observational Study
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Objectives: To examine the bidirectional association of sleep duration with proportions of time spent in physical behaviors among Dutch adolescents. Methods: Adolescents (n = 294, 11–15 years) completed sleep diaries and wore an accelerometer (ActiGraph) over 1 week. With linear mixed-effects models, the authors estimated the association of sleep categories (short, optimal, and long) with the following day’s proportion in physical behaviors. With generalized linear mixed models with binomial distribution, the authors estimated the association of physical behavior proportions on sleep categories. Physical behavior proportions were operationalized using percentages of wearing time and by applying a compositional approach. All analyses were stratified by gender accounting for differing developmental stages. Results: For males (number of observed days: 345, n = 83), short as compared with optimal sleep was associated with the following day’s proportion spent in sedentary (−2.57%, p = .03, 95% confidence interval [CI] [−4.95, −0.19]) and light-intensity activities (1.96%, p = .02, 95% CI [0.27, 3.65]), which was not significant in the compositional approach models. Among females (number of observed days: 427, n = 104), long sleep was associated with the proportions spent in moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (1.69%, p < .001, 95% CI [0.75, 2.64]) and in sedentary behavior (−3.02%, p < .01, 95% CI [−5.09, −0.96]), which was replicated by the compositional approach models. None of the associations between daytime activity and sleep were significant (number of obs.: 844, n = 204). Conclusions: Results indicate partial associations between sleep and the following day’s physical behaviors, and no associations between physical behaviors and the following night’s sleep.
Berninger and Knell are joint first authors. Berninger and Ten Hoor are with the Department of Work and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Knell is with the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) at Houston, Houston, TX, USA; the Center for Pediatric Population Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) at Houston, Dallas, TX, USA; and Children’s Health Andrews Institute for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Children’s Health System, Plano, TX, USA. Gabriel is with the Department of Epidemiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. Plasqui is with the Department of Human Biology and Movement Sciences, Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Crutzen is with the Department of Health Promotion, CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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