@article{ref1,
title="Neighborhood stress predicts fear of sleep independently of posttraumatic stress disorder",
journal="Behavioral sleep medicine",
year="2022",
author="Poindexter, Milan and Stokes, Alicia and Mellman, Thomas A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Chronic insufficient sleep is linked to a variety of adverse health outcomes, and African Americans have been found to have poorer sleep than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. African Americans disproportionately live in low-income disordered neighborhoods which increases their risk of trauma exposure and adversely affects their sleep. Fear of sleep is a construct linked to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We have reported a relationship between fear of sleep and insomnia in urban residing African Americans. Our objective is to report the relative contributions of neighborhood stress along with PTSD to fear of sleep. <br><br>METHODS: The present study features a nonclinical sample of 117 African Americans (ages 18-35) who reside in DC. <br><br>RESULTS: After controlling for gender, hierarchical linear regression analyses revealed that PTSD severity and perceptions of the neighborhood environment accounted for approximately 32% of the variance in sleep-related fears (∆R2 =.320, p <.001). Regression coefficients suggest that perceptions of the neighborhood (β =.360) predict sleep-related fears to a similar degree as PTSD severity (β =.368). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Results from this study have implications for interventions to help African Americans to cope with their neighborhood environments effect on their sleep.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1540-2002",
doi="10.1080/15402002.2022.2067162",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2022.2067162"
}