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Sleep duration and risk of obesity among a sample of Victorian school children

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2016
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Title
Sleep duration and risk of obesity among a sample of Victorian school children
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BMC Public Health, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-2913-4
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Bridget Morrissey, Mary Malakellis, Jill Whelan, Lynne Millar, Boyd Swinburn, Steven Allender, Claudia Strugnell

Abstract

Insufficient sleep is potentially an important modifiable risk factor for obesity and poor physical activity and sedentary behaviours among children. However, inconsistencies across studies highlight the need for more objective measures. This paper examines the relationship between sleep duration and objectively measured physical activity, sedentary time and weight status, among a sample of Victorian Primary School children. A sub-sample of 298 grades four (n = 157) and six (n = 132) Victorian primary school children (aged 9.2-13.2 years) with complete accelerometry and anthropometry data, from 39 schools, were taken from a pilot study of a larger state based cluster randomized control trial in 2013. Data comprised: researcher measured height and weight; accelerometry derived physical activity and sedentary time; and self-reported sleep duration and hypothesised confounding factors (e.g. age, gender and environmental factors). Compared with sufficient sleepers (67 %), those with insufficient sleep (<10 hrs/day) were significantly more likely to be overweight (OR 1.97, 95 % CI:1.11-3.48) or obese (OR 2.43, 95 % CI:1.26-4.71). No association between sleep and objectively measured physical activity levels or sedentary time was found. The strong positive relationship between weight status and sleep deprivation merits further research though PA and sedentary time do not seem to be involved in the relationship. Strategies to improve sleep duration may help obesity prevention initiatives in the future.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 220 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 32 14%
Student > Master 30 14%
Researcher 16 7%
Student > Postgraduate 14 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 6%
Other 36 16%
Unknown 79 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 18%
Sports and Recreations 18 8%
Psychology 8 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 3%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 81 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2022.
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#68
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