Neighborhood social capital and sleep duration: a population based cross-sectional study in a rural Japanese town.

ABSTRACT: Studies on social capital and health outcomes have become common, but the relationship between neighborhood social capital and sleep duration by gender is still unclear. We examined the relationship between neighborhood social capital and sleep duration by gender in adults living in a rural community in Japan.We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 12,321 residents aged ?20 years in a town in Mie Prefecture in January-March 2013. Self-completed questionnaires were collected from the residents (n?=?7782; valid participation rate, 63.2%). We used five items to assess the neighborhood social capital (Cronbach's ??=?0.86). We summed up the scores of each item, and then divided the participants into four groups by quartile of total scores of neighborhood social capital (lowest, low, high, and highest). Sleep duration of

SUBMITTER: Win T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5848537 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature