Rethinking the sleep-health link

Lisa Matricciani; Yu Sun Bin; Tea Lallukka; Erkki Kronholm; Melissa Wake; Catherine Paquet; Dorothea Dumuid; Tim Olds

doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2018.05.004

Rethinking the sleep-health link

Sleep Health. 2018 Aug;4(4):339-348. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2018.05.004. Epub 2018 Jun 27.

Authors

Lisa Matricciani¹, Yu Sun Bin², Tea Lallukka³, Erkki Kronholm³, Melissa Wake⁴, Catherine Paquet⁵, Dorothea Dumuid⁶, Tim Olds⁷

Affiliations

¹ Sansom Institute, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: Matla005@mymail.unisa.edu.au.
² Sleep Group, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Central Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, NSW, Australia.
³ Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; The University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁵ Sansom Institute, Centre for Population Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁶ Sansom Institute, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
⁷ Sansom Institute, Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 30031526
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2018.05.004

Abstract

Sleep is important for the physical, social and mental well-being of both children and adults. In this paper, we discuss the need to consider sleep as a multidimensional construct and as a component of total 24-hour activity. First, we make a case for considering sleep as a multidimensional construct, whereby all characteristics of sleep (including duration, quality, timing, and variability) and their links with health are examined. Second, we argue that sleep should also be conceptualized as part of the daily spectrum of time-use, along with other types of activity. We propose novel statistical models, in particular compositional data analysis (CoDA), as appropriate analytical methods for a new sleep paradigm.

Keywords: Adults; Children; Health; Sleep; Trends.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Health Status*
Humans
Sleep*