Elizabeth M Cespedes, Frank B Hu, Susan Redline, Bernard Rosner, Carmela Alcantara, Jianwen Cai, Martica H Hall, Jose S Loredo, Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Alberto R Ramos, Kathryn J Reid, Neomi A Shah, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Phyllis C Zee, Rui Wang, Sanjay R Patel
Most studies of sleep and health outcomes rely on self-reported sleep duration, although correlation with objective measures is poor. In this study, we defined sociodemographic and sleep characteristics associated with misreporting and assessed whether accounting for these factors better explains variation in objective sleep duration among 2,086 participants in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos who completed more than 5 nights of wrist actigraphy and reported habitual bed/wake times from 2010 to 2013...
March 15, 2016: American Journal of Epidemiology