The Relationship between Insufficient Sleep and Self-Rated Health in a Nationally Representative Sample

Table 4

Association between insufficient rest/sleep and poor SRH, by age category.

Categories of insufficient rest/sleep	No. at risk	No. with poor SRH	Unadjusted odds ratio (95% confidence intervals)	Multivariable odds ratio; (95% confidence intervals)*
<65 years of age	265278	40975
0 days	70920	8961	1 (referent)	1 (referent)
1–6 days	81902	7186	0.74 (.69–.79)	1.03 (.95–1.12)
7–13 days	32992	4416	1.04 (.96–1.13)	1.42 (1.29–1.57)
14–20 days	37806	7648	1.64 (1.53–1.76)	2.09 (1.91–2.27)
21–29 days	10431	2460	1.92 (1.74–2.13)	2.34 (2.07–2.64)
30 days	31227	10304	3.04 (2.84–3.25)	2.66 (2.44–2.89)
P-trend			<0.0001	<0.0001
≥65 years of age	111882	29803
0 days	63676	14609	1 (referent)	1 (referent)
1–6 days	24658	5004	0.90 (.84–.96)	1.06 (.98–1.14)
7–13 days	6759	2164	1.61(1.46–1.78)	1.61 (1.44–1.80)
14–20 days	6975	2932	2.45 (2.23–2.69)	2.28 (2.07–2.52)
21–29 days	1721	764	2.48 (2.07–2.98)	2.19 (1.79–2.69)
30 days	8093	4330	3.85 (3.54–4.19)	2.96 (2.68–3.26)
P-trend			<0.0001	<0.0001

*Adjusted for sex (men, women), age (years), race-ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, other), education categories (<high school, high school, >high school), (employed, unemployed, retired, unable to work, homemaker, student), income category (quintiles), marital status, smoker (never, former, current), heavy drinker (no, yes), no regular exercise (yes, no), body mass index categories (<25, 25–29, ≥30 kg/m²), CVD (no, yes), depression (no, yes), and anxiety (no, yes).