Reported Hours of Sleep, Diabetes Prevalence and Glucose Control in Jamaican Adults: Analysis from the Jamaica Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008
Table 3
Demographic, anthropometric, lifestyle factor and chronic disease prevalence, with self-reported hours of sleep in Jamaican women.
Characteristics
Hours of sleep
value
<6
6-7
7-8
8-9
9-10
>10
Age (yrs)a
44
42
43
39
43
34
<0.01
29.1
28.9
28.5
28.4
27.5
27.4
<0.01
Depression (%)
4.3
4.3
3.0
4.9
4.5
2.0
0.51
Poor quality of sleep (%)
46.3
43.7
45.3
44.6
50.0
52.2
0.26
Diabetes (%)
All
9.8
11.9
11.8
14.3
17.0
11.5
0.46
Established
7.0
10.0
9.7
11.1
14.4
9.5
Newly diagnosed
2.8
1.9
2.1
3.2
2.6
2.0
Hypertension (%)
35.1
31.0
33.2
34.0
37.0
28.9
0.49
Family history of diabetes (%)
49.3
41.3
42.1
42.8
38.4
37.6
0.82
Highest level of education (%)a
Primary/junior high
35.5
33.2
36.7
38.5
42.8
38.3
<0.01
Secondary
40.2
41.8
44.7
46.6
45.7
50.3
Post- secondary
24.3
25.0
18.6
14.9
11.5
11.4
Alcohol use (%)
Nondrinkers
51.4
54.0
54.7
56.5
56.1
54.0
0.89
Drinkers
48.6
46.0
45.0
43.5
43.9
46.0
Smoker (%)
60.9
53.9
51.5
44.2
46.9
48.3
0.80
Physical activity (%)a
High
21.5
24.6
21.2
18.6
12.0
14.4
<0.01
Medium
17.9
23.9
21.5
16.7
16.9
18.4
Low/Inactive
61.1
51.5
57.4
64.7
71.2
67.2
Median values presented unless otherwise stated. aindicates there is a significant difference () between the self-reported sleep categories using non-parametric test for trend of continuous variables or chi square statistic for categorical variables.
