Sleep duration, handgun carrying, and taking a handgun to school: an analysis of a statewide sample of Florida youth.

Autor: Meldrum RC; Florida International University, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 11200 SW 8th Street, PCA-364B, Miami, FL 33199. Electronic address: rmeldrum@fiu.edu., Jackson DB; Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Texas at San Antonio, 501 W. Cesar Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78207., Zgoba K; Florida International University, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 11200 SW 8th Street, PCA-257, Miami, FL 33199., Testa A; Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Texas at San Antonio, 501 W. Cesar Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78207.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sleep health [Sleep Health] 2020 Apr; Vol. 6 (2), pp. 153-158. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 13.
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.11.008
Abstrakt: Objectives: To investigate whether sleep duration is associated with adolescent handgun carrying behaviors.
Design: The Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (FYSAS) is a cross-sectional study of adolescents.
Setting: The state of Florida.
Participants: Middle school and high school students (n = 42,182) attending public schools in 2018.
Methods: Dichotomous measures of general handgun carrying and taking a handgun to school within the past 12 months were modeled as dependent variables. Self-reports of hours slept on an average school night were used to construct multiple indicators of sleep duration (ordinal, dichotomous, and hourly dummy variable series) to predict general handgun carrying and taking a handgun to school in logistic regression models when accounting for several covariates.
Results: Adjusting for model covariates, youth who reported sleeping four or fewer hours at night had 40% greater odds of general handgun carrying than youth who reported sleeping eight or more hours. Likewise, youth who reported sleeping four or fewer hours at night had 85% greater odds of taking a handgun to school than youth who reported sleeping eight or more hours. Youth who reported sleeping five, six, or seven hours were no more likely to report handgun-carrying behaviors than youth who reported sleeping eight or more hours.
Conclusions: Among youth in Florida, severe deficits in sleep are associated with general handgun carrying as well as taking a handgun to school. More modest sleep deficits are not associated with these behaviors.
(Copyright © 2019 National Sleep Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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