January 22, 2023Preventing Chronic DiseaseOpen Access

The Mediating Role of Sleep Disturbance on the Association Between Stress and Self-Rated Health Among Chinese and Korean Immigrant Americans

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Why the study?

Disturbed sleep may link stress with poor health, but its potential mediating role between various types of stress and self-rated health among Chinese and Korean Americans needed description.

Population

400 Chinese and Korean immigrants aged 50 to 75 years

Comparison

Acculturative stress, perceived stress, and distress associations mediated by sleep disturbance

Design

Cross-sectional study

Authors

BMBrittany N. MoreyUniversity of California, Irvine SRSoomin RyuUniversity of Southern California YSYuxi ShiUniversity of California, Irvine

Discussion

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Implication

Should not yet change practice; hypothesis-generating for prospective trials of sleep interventions in stressed populations.

Structured PICO

Population

400 Chinese and Korean immigrants (200 Chinese, 200 Korean) aged 50 to 75 years, living in the US for an average of 23 years, recruited from primary care physicians' clinics in the Baltimore-Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

Outcome

Self-rated health assessed as a continuous variable ranging from 1 (excellent) to 5 (poor)patient reported

Limitations

Cross-sectional nature of the data set did not enable establishment of causal mechanisms
Unique sample of Chinese and Korean immigrants aged 50 to 75 years living in the Baltimore-Washington, DC, metropolitan area limits generalizability
Used only a single retrospective self-reported measure to assess sleep disturbance

Cite This Study

Morey et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a83249a3b194ef92e5829ef https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220241

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The Mediating Role of Sleep Disturbance on the Association Between Stress and Self-Rated Health Among Chinese and Korean Immigrant Americans

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The Mediating Role of Sleep Disturbance on the Association Between Stress and Self-Rated Health Among Chinese and Korean Immigrant Americans

Discussion

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Implication

Structured PICO

Limitations

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