Age Trends in Actigraphy and Self-Report Sleep Across the Life Span: Findings From the Pittsburgh Lifespan Sleep Databank

Wallace, Meredith L.; Kissel, Nicholas; Hall, Martica H.; Germain, Anne; Matthews, Karen A.; Troxel, Wendy; Franzen, Peter L.; Buysse, Daniel J.; Reynolds, Charles F.; Roecklein, Kathryn A.; Gunn, Heather E.; Hasler, Brant P.; Goldstein, Tina R.; McMakin, Dana L.; Szigethy, Eva; Soehner, Adriane M.

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“…Third, it should be acknowledged that the longer questionnaire on sleep variables was not measured at the time of antibody assessment but 12 months later, although PA was measured at baseline, due to attempt to reduce participant questionnaire burden. However, although some sleep variables change across the lifespan, this is less the case for sleep duration than sleep timing ( Evans et al, 2021 ) and in later life it is likely that only small changes occur over the course of a year given trends across later life ( Wallace et al, 2022 ). In addition, given this study was not a health behaviour intervention, it was not expected that there would be any systematic change across participants in PA between baseline and one month.…”

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Physical activity and sleep relate to antibody maintenance following naturalistic infection and/or vaccination in older adults

Whittaker

Nys

Brindle

et al. 2023

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health

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confidence: 99%

Physical activity and sleep relate to antibody maintenance following naturalistic infection and/or vaccination in older adults

Whittaker

Nys

Brindle

et al. 2023

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health

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“…Later school start times are conducive to more and better sleep for adolescents (Dunster et al, 2018; Meltzer et al, 2021). Adolescents show marked changes in their sleep and circadian rhythms post‐puberty, with changes in circadian phase and homeostatic sleep drive that promote a tendency towards later sleep timing that peaks at about age 20 years (Crowley et al, 2018; Roenneberg et al, 2004; Wallace et al, 2022). In contrast, secondary school start times tend to shift earlier than elementary school starts, leading to a mismatch between biological tendencies and environmental demands.…”

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Pre‐pandemic circadian phase predicts pandemic alcohol use among adolescents

Hasler

Wallace

Graves

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryLater circadian timing during adolescence is linked to worse sleep, more severe depression and greater alcohol involvement, perhaps due to circadian misalignment imposed by early school schedules. School schedules shifted later during the COVID‐19 pandemic, ostensibly reducing circadian misalignment and potentially mitigating problems with depression and alcohol. We used the pandemic as a natural experiment to test whether adolescent drinkers with later circadian timing showed improvements in sleep, depression and alcohol involvement. Participants were 42 adolescents reporting alcohol use. We assessed circadian phase via dim light melatonin onset prior to the pandemic, then conducted remote assessments of sleep, depressive symptoms and alcohol use during the pandemic. Mixed‐effects models were used to test for pandemic effects, covarying for age, sex, time since baseline evaluation, and current school/work status. Adolescents with later circadian timing reported less sleep than other teens on school nights, both before and during the pandemic. Although school night sleep increased during the pandemic (F = 28.36, p < 0.001), those increases were not greater for individuals with later circadian timing. Individuals with later circadian timing reported larger increases in alcohol use than other teens during the pandemic (X2 = 36.03, p < 0.001). Depressive symptoms increased during the pandemic (X2 = 46.51, p < 0.001) but did not differ based on circadian timing. Consistent with prior reports, adolescents with later circadian timing obtained less sleep, and later school schedules facilitated increased sleep duration. Nonetheless, individuals with later circadian timing reported the sharpest increases in alcohol use, suggesting that circadian timing contributes to risk for alcohol use beyond the effects of insufficient sleep.

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“…Although prior work suggests that nightly sleep duration and daytime sleepiness may be associated with academic performance among adolescents and emerging adults, much of this previous work has been limited by self-reports of sleep ( 11 , 12 ), which can be significantly biased (e.g., refs. 13 and 14 ). Now that activity trackers measuring objective sleep and physical activity (e.g., Fitbits) have become ubiquitous and are utilized by an ever-growing number of college students, we are in a better position to rigorously evaluate the effects of sleep patterns on academic success outside the confines of the laboratory.…”

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Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college

Creswell

Tumminia

Price

et al. 2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Academic achievement in the first year of college is critical for setting students on a pathway toward long-term academic and life success, yet little is known about the factors that shape early college academic achievement. Given the important role sleep plays in learning and memory, here we extend this work to evaluate whether nightly sleep duration predicts change in end-of-semester grade point average (GPA). First-year college students from three independent universities provided sleep actigraphy for a month early in their winter/spring academic term across five studies. Findings showed that greater early-term total nightly sleep duration predicted higher end-of-term GPA, an effect that persisted even after controlling for previous-term GPA and daytime sleep. Specifically, every additional hour of average nightly sleep duration early in the semester was associated with an 0.07 increase in end-of-term GPA. Sensitivity analyses using sleep thresholds also indicated that sleeping less than 6 h each night was a period where sleep shifted from helpful to harmful for end-of-term GPA, relative to previous-term GPA. Notably, predictive relationships with GPA were specific to total nightly sleep duration, and not other markers of sleep, such as the midpoint of a student’s nightly sleep window or bedtime timing variability. These findings across five studies establish nightly sleep duration as an important factor in academic success and highlight the potential value of testing early academic term total sleep time interventions during the formative first year of college.

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Age Trends in Actigraphy and Self-Report Sleep Across the Life Span: Findings From the Pittsburgh Lifespan Sleep Databank

Cited by 14 publications

References 45 publications

Physical activity and sleep relate to antibody maintenance following naturalistic infection and/or vaccination in older adults

Physical activity and sleep relate to antibody maintenance following naturalistic infection and/or vaccination in older adults

Pre‐pandemic circadian phase predicts pandemic alcohol use among adolescents

Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college

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