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Hwang and Kim: Effects of Sleep Patterns on the Subjective Health Status in Older Men from the 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2016

Abstract

Background

Sleeping is a major component of health. The prevalence of sleep disorders is expected to be high in older adults, and sleep habits generally differ on weekdays and weekends. This study aimed to clarify the associations between sleep habits and the subjective health status of older adults.

Methods

This study analyzed data of 1,678 older adults (695 men and 883 women) aged 65 years or older who had participated in the 2016 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES VII-1) conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The participants’ subjective health perceptions were analyzed according to their sleep habits.

Results

Weekday and weekend sleep durations were related to subjective health in older men (p<0.05) but not in women. The subjective health perception was significantly better for a 9-hour sleep duration than for a 7-hour sleep duration in older men. Sleeping and waking times on weekdays and weekends were not related to the subjective health of either men or women.

Conclusion

Weekday and weekend sleep durations were related to subjective health perception in older men.

Introduction

Sleeping is a major component of health, and sleep disorders increase the risk of major diseases, including cardiovascular disease.1) A previous study reported associations between sleep disorder and heart failure, coronary heart disease, and irritable bowel syndrome.2) Sleep problems are well known to affect the quality of life,3) including poor response to health that indicates a decrease in subjective health perception. Furthermore, sleep disorders, including insomnia, daytime sleepiness,4) short sleep duration, and long sleep duration,5) are associated with decreases in subjective health perception. Sleep quality is also associated with decreased quality of life, including subjective health perception.6)
Subjective health perception involves recognizing one’s health status; this information can then be used to assess an individual’s general health status.7) In addition, regardless of the actual state of health, if the subjective health perception is poor, the level of daily activity is low, which could negatively affect the state of wellbeing.8)
In contrast, it is well-known that sleep patterns change with age,1) that aging is a major cause of sleep disorders, and that various factors are related to sleep disorders in older adults.9) They have decreased deep sleep, difficulty falling asleep, increased arousal while sleeping, and decreased total sleeping duration.10) These observations suggest a high prevalence of sleep disorders in older adults.11) Thus, these individuals with a high prevalence of sleep problems may also have a high possibility of reduced subjective health perception, which may ultimately affect the actual health status.
This study assessed the relationship between sleep habits and subjective health perception rather than the quality of sleep and sleep disorders, which have been evaluated in previous studies. Sleep habits generally differ between weekdays and weekends. In most cases, weekend sleep duration is relatively longer, as reported by the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES),12) and may do so even after retirement. Moreover, as older adults are more likely to live according to traditional gender roles, sleep habits may also differ according to sex. Thus, the purpose of this study was to clarify the association between sleep habits and subjective health status in older adults.

Materials and Methods

Participants

This study analyzed data of 1,678 older people (695 men and 883 women) aged 65 years or older who participated in the 2016 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES VII-1) conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.13)
From the KNHANES, the extraction frame was stratified based on cities, provinces, municipalities, and housing types (general houses, apartments, newly built apartments). This study was conducted from January to December 2016 for all households with person over one year old or older from among 4,416 households nationwide. Because the KNHANES datasets do not include identifiable personal information, all studies using these data are excluded from the requirement for institutional review board approval.

Data Collection and Variables

We analyzed data on the participants’ age, spouse cohabitation, household income, weekday and weekend sleeping times, weekday and weekend waking times, number of days walked per week, number of strength exercise days per week, and the presence of chronic diseases (hypertension, type 2 diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertriglyceridemia).
Spouse cohabitation was defined as living with a spouse. The weekly walking days were classified into four groups: no walking at all, 1–3 days walking, 4–6 days walking, and daily walking. The weekly strength exercise days were divided into three groups: no exercise at all, 1–3 days, and 4 or more days.

Sleep Habits and Subjective Health Perception

We defined sleep duration in this study as the difference between sleeping time and waking time and classified into five groups: under 6 hours, 6–7 hours, 7–8 hours, 8–9 hours, and more than 9 hours. Sleeping time was classified into six groups: before 9 pm, 9–10 pm, 10–11 pm, 11–12 pm, 12–1 am, and after 1 am. Waking up time was classified into six stages: before 4 am, 4–5 am, 5–6 am, 6–7 am, 7–8 am, and after 8 am. Subjective health perception was classified into three stages: good, normal, and bad. Health perception data were acquired from responses to a simple question (“how do you normally think of your health?”).

Statistical Analysis

We performed statistical analysis using complex sample analysis in IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 23.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). We used t-tests to compare the mean age and weekday and weekend sleeping times among the participants. We used chi-square tests to compare the age groups, spouse living status, household income, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, weekly walking days, weekly strength exercise days, and subjective health status between older men and women.
We also used chi-square tests to compare the differences in weekday and weekend sleep duration, sleeping time, and waking up time between older men and women. We applied a generalized linear model to compare differences in sleep duration according to sleeping and waking times on weekdays and weekends between older men and women. Ordinal regression was used to examine the relationship between subjective health and stages of sleep duration, sleeping time, and waking time.

Results

Baseline Participants Characteristics

The mean ages of the men and women in this study were 72.26±0.239 and 74.41±0.203 years, respectively. The age composition differed significantly by sex (p<0.01). We also observed a difference in the spouse cohabitation status between men and women (p<0.01). The sleep duration was longer in men compared to that in women on both weekdays and weekends. The prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hypertriglyceridemia did not differ significantly between men and women; however, the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia differed significantly (p<0.01). The walking days in a week did not differ significantly between the sex; however, muscular exercise duration and walking practice were significantly higher in men than in women (Table 1).

Comparisons of Sleep Duration, Sleeping Time, and Waking Time between Men and Women

Weekday and weekend sleep durations differed significantly between men and women (p<0.012). Sleep durations between 7 and 8 hours were highest on weekdays. The weekend sleep duration differed significantly between men and women (p=0.006). On weekdays, the most common sleep time was between 10 pm and 11 pm. The weekend sleeping times were similar to those on weekdays. There was no difference in sleeping time between the sexes with regard to weekend sleeping time. On weekdays, the waking times for both were predominantly between 5 am and 6 am (Table 2).

Sleep Duration according to Sleeping and Waking Times on Weekdays and Weekends

The weekday sleep durations in men and women who went to sleep between 10 and 11 pm were 447.56±5.13 and 435.04±6.02 minutes, respectively, and 454.22±5.78 and 441.21±6.18 minutes, respectively, on the weekends. The weekend sleep duration was higher than the weekday sleep duration. The sleep duration of men who woke between 6 and 7 am on weekdays did not differ from those who woke between 7 and 8 am and after 8 am (Table 3).

Relationships between Sleep Habits and Subjective Health

The weekday and weekend sleeping durations were associated with subjective health in men (p<0.05) but not in women. Compared to a sleep duration of 7 hours, a duration of 9 hours was significantly associated with improved health perception in men. Sleeping and waking times on weekdays and weekends were not related to subjective health in either sex (Table 4).

Discussion

This study investigated the associations between sleep habits and subjective health perception. A previous study reported that sleep duration affected the quality of life at all ages, as assessed by the European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D) index.14) Inconsistent with the results of our study, previous studies reported an association between the quality of life and sleep patterns. However, previous studies also reported that responses to the EQ-5D were related to subjective health status.15,16) This trend was expected to be prominent in older adults who often have an overall lower quality of sleep.11) We observed different associations between sleep habits and health perceptions between sexes in the present study.
In this study, weekday and weekend sleep durations were associated with subjective health perception in men but not in women. Subjective health perception is how an individual perceives his or her health, which may differ from their actual health. However, negative subjective health perceptions are associated with an increased prevalence of depression or stress-related symptoms;17,18) thus, subjective health perception is considered an objective indicator of health.19) In this study, men with sleep durations of 9 hours perceived their subjective health to be significantly compared that in men with 7 hours of sleep duration on both weekdays and weekends. However, compared to 7 hours of sleep duration, we observed no significant difference in subjective health perception for other sleep durations. Older adults have a higher prevalence of sleep disorders;10,11) thus, the impact of insufficient sleep duration on subjective health perception could be greater in this population than in younger populations. In other words, if older adults perceive that they are lacking sleep, their subjective health perception is likely to be worse compared to those in younger populations.
Many factors affect positive subjective health perception; among these, a sleep duration that is not too long and not too short is important,5) which is consistent with our results. However, subjective health perception was not related to sleeping or waking times in men in our study. Lifestyle determines sleeping or waking time, and these are considered insignificant if the sleep duration is sufficient.
In women, sleep duration, sleeping time, and waking time were not related to subjective health perception. The prevalence of sleep disorders is higher in older women than in older men.20,21) Thus, sleep disorders may negatively affect the relationship between sleep habits and subjective health perception compared to that in individuals without sleep disorders. Therefore, sleep habits are unlikely to be a significant factor for subjective health perception in older women with sleep disorders. Also, sleep patterns of older women might be affected by both social and familial roles, meanwhile these in older men are more likely to be affected by only social roles, in Korean cultural perspective. Additionally, alterations in sleeping patterns may differ between older adult men and women. In older adult men, a lack of deep sleep is a major problem, while sleep latency was a predominant sleeping problem in older women.22) Consequently, insufficient sleep duration was related to poor subjective health perception in older men lacking deep sleep.
We observed associations between weekday and weekend sleep duration and subjective health perception in men. These results may inform the regulation of health policy in this population. Generally, 8 hours is considered a sufficient sleep duration in adults, although one study reported 7 hours to be sufficient.23) Older men with a lack of deep sleep may not perceive their subjective health to be high despite having a sufficient sleep duration (7–8 hours); in this study, those with 9 hours of sleep duration perceived their health to be good. Subjective health perception is not a substitute for actual health status but is helpful as an objective indicator to predict the actual health status.24,25) Additionally, one study reported that poor perception of subjective health increased the risk of suicide and decreased daily life activities.8,26) Thus, older men may not sleep enough due to sleep disorders, or if they did sleep, their sleep duration was less than 8 hours. Their subjective perception could also be deteriorating, leading to an increased risk of disease. Therefore, sleep duration should be assessed in the initial medical examinations of older men. If the sleep duration is insufficient, sleep hygiene should be managed or pharmacologic intervention should be considered. Further study is needed regarding the effects on older adult women.
This study has a few limitations. First, due to the cross-sectional design, the observed relationships established did not establish causality. Prospective studies are needed to clarify the causality of subjective health perception and sleep habits. Second, data on medical history and sleep patterns were obtained through a questionnaire; thus, missing variables or overstatement are possible. The question used to estimate sleep duration, “when do you usually go to bed and when do you wake up?” was very simple and might not reflect the average duration of sleep. Third, we analyzed only sleep habits as represented by sleep duration, sleeping time, and waking time, but not sleep quality, which was not considered is as important as sleep pattern. Despite these limitations, the strength of this study was that the study population may represent the Korean older population. Moreover, to our knowledge, this is the first study to assess the relationship between sleep habits and subjective health perception in this population.
In conclusion, weekday and weekend sleep durations were related to subjective health perception in older men. Additional studies are needed to determine how sleep habits, including sleep quality, affect the subjective health perception of older adults.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The researchers claim no conflicts of interest.

FUNDING

This work was supported by a 2-year research grant from Pusan National University.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Conceptualization, YJK; Data curation, YJK; Funding acquisition, YJK; Methodology, YJK; Supervision, YJK; Investigation, HRH; Writing original draft, HRH; Reviewing & editing, HRH.

Table 1.
Baseline participant characteristics
Characteristic Men (n=695) Women (n=883) p-valuea)
Age (y) 72.26±0.239 74.41±0.203 <0.01
 65–74 430 (64.5) 519 (53.8)
 ≥75 265 (35.5) 364 (46.2)
Living status with spouse <0.01
 Living with spouse 603 (87.9) 439 (45.8)
 Living without spouse 88 (12.1) 439 (54.2)
Household income <0.01
 Low 297 (42.8) 479 (54.3)
 Middle 203 (27.4) 227 (24.7)
 High 187 (29.8) 173 (21.0)
Total weekday sleep duration 442.16±4.48 422.46±4.00 <0.01
Total weekend sleep duration 454.32±4.62 430.54±4.06 <0.01
Chronic disease
 Hypertension 413 (61.7) 593 (67.7) 0.131
 Diabetes 187 (27.2) 208 (27.4) 0.452
 Hypercholesterolemia 132 (20.8) 282 (34.7) <0.01
 Hypertriglyceridemia 89 (15.9) 106 (14.9) 0.662
Weekly walking days 0.075
 No walking 167 (24.5) 262 (30.1)
 1–3 144 (23.2) 223 (25.6)
 4–6 days 128 (19.4) 134 (16.2)
 Daily 211 (32.9) 209 (28.2)
Weekly days of muscular exercise <0.01
 No muscle exercise 488 (70.4) 754 (90.9)
 1–3 56 (9.2) 38 (4.0)
 >4 112 (16.8) 39 (5.1)
Walking practice rate 301 (46.6) 287 (37.7) 0.040

Values are presented as mean±standard error or number (%).

a) t-test or chi-square test.

Table 2.
Comparisons of sleep duration, sleeping time, and waking time between men and women
Sleep habit Male (n=695) Female (n=883) p-valuea)
Weekday sleep duration (hr) 0.012
 <6 73 (13.0) 148 (18.3)
 6–7 111 (18.0) 160 (21.1)
 7–8 186 (26.0) 223 (26.6)
 8–9 162 (24.5) 165 (18.7)
 >9 122 (18.5) 132 (15.4)
Weekend sleep duration (hr) 0.006
 <6 69 (12.1) 140 (17.0)
 6–7 93 (15.7) 157 (19.4)
 7–8 179 (24.6) 210 (25.9)
 8–9 164 (24.7) 176 (19.9)
 >9 148 (22.9) 145 (17.8)
Weekday sleeping time 0.263
 Before 9 pm 78 (11.1) 62 (7.4)
 9 pm–10 pm 156 (21.5) 192 (21.4)
 10 pm–11 pm 202 (30.6) 243 (30.1)
 11 pm-12 am 115 (17.6) 171 (21.0)
 12 am–1 am 72 (13.0) 107 (13.8)
 After 1 am 32 (6.2) 55 (6.5)
Weekend sleeping time 0.066
 Before 9 pm 79 (11.4) 59 (7.2)
 9 pm–10 pm 150 (21.6) 171 (18.8)
 10 pm–11 pm 199 (29.3) 241 (29.7)
 11 pm–12 am 119 (18.2) 176 (21.8)
 12 am–1 am 78 (13.8) 123 (15.1)
 After 1 am 29 (5.6) 59 (7.3)
Weekday waking time 0.250
 Before 4 am 33 (5.5) 61 (7.7)
 4 am–5 am 100 (13.8) 140 (16.7)
 5 am–6 am 205 (30.3) 244 (30.5)
 6 am–7 am 186 (28.5) 227 (25.9)
 7 am–8 am 94 (14.8) 113 (13.7)
 After 8 am 37 (7.4) 47 (5.5)
Weekend waking time 0.395
 Before 4 am 32 (5.4) 55 (6.9)
 4 am–5 am 78 (10.7) 122 (14.3)
 5 am–6 am 200 (29.8) 221 (27.4)
 6 am–7 am 178 (26.6) 231 (26.2)
 7 am–8 am 109 (16.8) 128 (15.2)
 After 8 am 57 (10.8) 75 (10.1)

Values are presented as number (%).

a) Chi-square tests.

Table 3.
Sleep duration according to sleeping and waking time of weekdays and weekends
Sleep pattern Male (n=695)
Female (n=883)
Estimate SE p-valuea) Estimate SE p-valuea)
Weekday sleep duration by sleeping time
 (Intercept) 447.563 5.129 <0.001 435.041 6.024 <0.001
 Before 9 pm 101.796 12.086 <0.001 101.713 18.356 <0.001
 9 pm­–10 pm 37.608 9.168 <0.001 34.373 10.278 0.001
 11 pm–12 am -36.835 9.375 <0.001 -35.172 9.758 <0.001
 12 am­–1 am -74.05 11.888 <0.001 -79.515 9.543 <0.001
 After 1 am -140.895 18.051 <0.001 -141.493 17.881 <0.001
 10 pm–11 pm 0.000b) - - 0.000b) - -
Weekend sleep duration by sleeping time
 (Intercept) 454.215 5.763 <0.001 441.421 6.132 <0.001
 Before 9 pm 102.563 12.114 <0.001 98.29 21.28 <0.001
 9 pm–10 pm 47.493 11.645 <0.001 43.685 9.496 <0.001
 11 pm–12 am -28.158 9.95 0.005 -24.546 8.972 0.006
 12 am–1 am -67.624 10.681 <0.001 -70.313 10.314 <0.001
 After 1 am -131.391 19.439 <0.001 -139.416 17.031 <0.001
 10 pm–11 pm 0.000b) - - 0.000b) - -
Weekday sleep duration by wake time
 (Intercept) 471.848 7.352 <0.001 447.212 6.454 <0.001
 Before 4 am -130.92 17.645 <0.001 -138.742 13.421 <0.001
 4 am–5 am -92.516 11.759 <0.001 -75.769 10.7 <0.001
 5 am–6 am -47.398 9.588 <0.001 -39.449 8.521 <0.001
 7 am–8 am 19.492 10.114 0.054 46.299 11.558 <0.001
 After 8 am 23.22 21.718 0.285 78.164 21.072 <0.001
 6 am–7 am 0.000b) - - 0.000b) - -
Weekend sleep duration by wake time
 (Intercept) 474.45 7.28 <0.001 442.249 5.562 <0.001
 Before 4 am -123.436 17.311 <0.001 -128.5 14.004 <0.001
 4 am–5 am -87.397 12.844 <0.001 -71.917 10.068 <0.001
 5 am–6 am -49.029 9.544 <0.001 -36.231 7.982 <0.001
 7 am–8 am 21.684 9.699 0.026 49.862 10.466 <0.001
 After 8 am 62.479 19.179 0.001 98.845 15.104 <0.001
 6 am–7 am 0.000b) - - 0.000b) - -

SE, standard error.

a) Analysis of variance.

b) Reference (standard time).

Table 4.
Relationships between sleep habits and subjective health
Male
Female
Weekday
Weekend
Weekday
Weekend
OR 95% CI p-valuea) OR 95% CI p-valuea) OR 95% CI p-valuea) OR 95% CI p-valuea)
Sleep duration (hr) 0.043 0.025 0.480 0.398
 5 1.053 0.496–1.819 1.076 0.572–2.024 1.559 0.912–2.668 1.371 0.811–2.319
 6 1.016 0.583–1.661 0.891 0.514–1.547 1.053 0.682–1.626 1.138 0.725–1.786
 8 0.966 0.664–1.613 0.983 0.622–1.553 1.186 0.807–1.743 1.076 0.727–1.593
 9 0.570 0.359–0.904 0.513 0.321–0.822 1.273 0.895–1.812 1.426 0.958–2.123
 7 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 -
Sleeping time 0.058 0.148 0.815 0.801
 <9 pm 0.495 0.250–0.982 0.621 0.313–1.231 1.015 0.547–1.883 0.947 0.543–1.651
 9 pm–10 pm 0.787 0.531–1.164 0.876 0.580–1.325 0.897 0.608–1.325 0.835 0.575–1.212
 11 pm–12 am 0.949 0.606–1.486 1.185 0.769–1.827 1.081 0.703–1.662 1.003 0.692–1.454
 12 am–1 am 0.843 0.487–1.457 1.125 0.641–1.973 0.864 0.575–1.297 0.787 0.520–1.190
 >1 am 1.539 0.545–4.346 1.597 0.594–4.293 0.664 0.268–1.643 0.770 0.313–1.897
 10 pm–11 pm 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 -
Waking time 0.999 0.561 0.132 0.206
 <4 am 1.059 0.522–2.148 0.880 0.431–1.799 0.939 0.462–1.907 0.886 0.473–1.589
 4 am–5 am 0.981 0.608–1.584 0.856 0.515–1.423 1.296 0.767–2.192 1.237 0.772–1.982
 5 am–6 am 1.027 0.668–1.580 1.283 0.823–2.000 1.492 0.998–2.229 1.303 0.906–1.873
 7 am–8 am 0.960 0.581–1.588 1.208 0.700–2.086 0.874 0.545–1.403 0.829 0.515–1.334
 >8 am 0.906 0.495–1.660 0.847 0.405–1.770 1.084 0.614–1.913 0.750 0.378–1.488
 6 am–7 am 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 -

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

a) Ordinal regression.

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