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2-012 - Understanding Inequities in Sleep from Infancy to Adolescence

Fri, April 7, 8:15 to 9:45am, Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 6A

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Prior research has shown that, across the life course, individuals who are ethnic minorities and/or economically disadvantaged are at higher risk for short sleep duration and poor quality sleep (Grandner et al., 2016). The consequences of these inequities in sleep are potentially wide ranging, from effects on cognition and academic performance to physical and mental well-being (Owens et al., 2014), thus it is an imperative to better understand processes that contribute to inequities in sleep that may lead to larger disparities in long-term achievement and health. Because sleep is influenced by a combination of biological, social, and environmental factors (Hale et al., 2015), an integrative, developmental science framework is well-suited to examine the many potential pathways through which sleep disparities may emerge. The proposed symposium includes papers that examine developmentally pertinent factors at multiple levels of influence (e.g. parenting, discrimination, and neighborhood factors) that may contribute to ethnic and socioeconomic differences in sleep during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Further, across studies sleep is examined as a process variable either mediating or moderating associations with cognitive, academic, and health outcomes. The included papers are distinguished by the use of multi-method sleep assessment, including actigraphy to derive objective indicators of sleep duration and quality, and the inclusion of diverse, community samples from semi-rural towns to urban centers across the U.S. Together, the papers suggest the importance of reducing disparities in sleep and highlight factors that may be viable targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

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