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Sleep quality and recommended levels of physical activity in older people

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posted on 2015-11-27, 15:17 authored by Iuliana HartescuIuliana Hartescu, Kevin Morgan, Clare StevinsonClare Stevinson
A minimum level of activity likely to improve sleep outcomes among older people has not previously been explored. In a representative UK sample aged 65+ (n = 926), cross-sectional regressions controlling for appropriate confounders showed that walking at or above the internationally recommended threshold of ≥150 minutes per week was significantly associated with a lower likelihood of reporting insomnia symptoms (OR = 0.67 (95% CI = 0.45 – 0.91) p<0.05). At 4-year follow-up (n=577), higher walking levels at baseline significantly predicted a lower likelihood of reporting sleep onset (OR = 0.64 (95% CI = 0.42-0.97 p<0.05) or sleep maintenance (OR = 0.63 (95% CI = 0.41-0.95 p<0.05) problems. These results are consistent with the conclusion that current physical activity guidelines can support sleep quality in older adults.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Journal of Aging and Physical Activity

Volume

24

Issue

2

Pages

201 - 206

Citation

HARTESCU, I., MORGAN, K. and STEVINSON, C., 2016. Sleep quality and recommended levels of physical activity in older people. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 24 (2), pp. 201 - 206.

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© Human Kinetics, Inc.

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016-01-31

Copyright date

2016

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This article was accepted for publication in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity [© Human Kinetics, Inc.]

ISSN

1063-8652

Language

  • en

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