Christopher N Kaufmann1, Ramin Mojtabai2, Rebecca S Hock3, Roland J Thorpe4, Sarah L Canham5, Lian-Yu Chen2, Alexandra M V Wennberg2, Lenis P Chen-Edinboro6, Adam P Spira7. 1. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: cnkaufmann@ucsd.edu. 2. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. 3. Chester M. Pierce, MD, Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 4. Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. 5. Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 6. School of Health and Applied Human Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA. 7. Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Insomnia is reported to be more prevalent in minority racial/ethnic groups. Little is known, however, about racial/ethnic differences in changes in insomnia severity over time, particularly among older adults. We examined racial/ethnic differences in trajectories of insomnia severity among middle-aged and older adults. DESIGN: Data were drawn from five waves of the Health and Retirement Study (2002-2010), a nationally representative longitudinal biennial survey of adults aged > 50 years. SETTING: Population-based. PARTICIPANTS: 22,252 participants from non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and other racial/ethnic groups. MEASUREMENTS: Participants reported the severity of four insomnia symptoms; summed scores ranged from 4 (no insomnia) to 12 (severe insomnia). We assessed change in insomnia across the five waves as a function of race/ethnicity. RESULTS: Across all participants, insomnia severity scores increased 0.19 points (95% CI: 0.14-0.24; t = 7.52; design df = 56; p < 0.001) over time after adjustment for sex, race/ethnicity, education, and baseline age. After adjusting for the number of accumulated health conditions and body mass index, this trend decreased substantially and even changed direction (B = -0.24; 95% CI: -0.29 to -0.19; t = -9.22; design df = 56; p < 0.001). The increasing trajectory was significantly more pronounced in Hispanics compared with non-Hispanic whites, even after adjustment for number of accumulated health conditions, body mass index, and number of depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Although insomnia severity increases with age-largely due to the accumulation of health conditions-this trend appears more pronounced among Hispanic older adults than in non-Hispanic whites. Further research is needed to determine the reasons for a different insomnia trajectory among Hispanics.
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