Parallel Assessment Challenges in Nutritional and Sleep Epidemiology. Issue 6 (22nd October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dunietz, Galit Levi; Jansen, Erica C; Hershner, Shelley; O'Brien, Louise M; Peterson, Karen E; Baylin, Ana
• Is Part Of: American journal of epidemiology. Volume 190:Issue 6(2021)
• Page Start: 954
• Page End: 961
• Publication Date: 2020-10-22
• Subjects: calibration -- causal diagrams -- directed acyclic graph -- measurement error -- method of triads -- nutritional epidemiology -- sleep epidemiology; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Public health -- Periodicals; 614.4
• DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa230
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-9262

Abstract

Abstract: Sleep has been consistently linked to health outcomes in clinical studies, but only in recent years has sleep become a focus in epidemiologic studies and public health. In particular, the sizable prevalence of insufficient sleep in the population warrants well-designed epidemiologic studies to examine its impact on public health. As a developing field, sleep epidemiology encounters methodological challenges similar to those faced by nutritional epidemiology research. In this article, we describe a few central challenges related to assessment of sleep duration in population-based studies in comparison with measurement challenges in nutritional epidemiology. In addition, we highlight 3 strategies applied in nutritional epidemiology to address measurement challenges and suggest ways these strategies could be implemented in large-scale sleep investigations.