Yip Tiffany, Lorenzo Kyle, Wu Jiawei, Yan Jinjin, Zhao Zhenqiang, Cham Heining, Chae David, El-Sheikh Mona
Department of Psychology, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, USA.
Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Aug 18. doi: 10.1007/s40615-025-02592-6.
This study investigated patterns of disparities in sleep during the first semester of college, focusing on several dimensions of sleep and using multiple methods. Ethnically and racially diverse first-year college students (n = 635; Asian = 20%, Black = 12%, Latinx = 20%, multiracial = 23%, White = 25%; female = 73%, male = 25%, non-binary = 2%) completed a baseline survey, 14 daily diaries, and wore wrist actigraphs in their first semester at college. Across all three methodologies, White students had the longest sleep duration, whereas Black students had the shortest. Across surveys and daily diaries, White students reported the most environmental sleep disturbances. Asian students experienced the poorest actigraphy-assessed sleep efficiency and greatest wake minutes after sleep onset, despite reporting similar levels of sleep quality to other groups. These findings document ethnic/racial sleep disparities among diverse college students across a range of sleep dimensions and offer insight into developing focused institution-level interventions to target specific sleep outcomes.
本研究调查了大学第一学期睡眠差异模式，重点关注睡眠的几个维度并采用多种方法。来自不同种族的一年级大学生（n = 635；亚裔 = 20%，黑人 = 12%，拉丁裔 = 20%，多种族 = 23%，白人 = 25%；女性 = 73%，男性 = 25%，非二元性别 = 2%）在大学第一学期完成了一项基线调查、14篇每日日记，并佩戴了手腕活动记录仪。在所有三种方法中，白人学生的睡眠时间最长，而黑人学生的睡眠时间最短。在调查和每日日记中，白人学生报告的环境睡眠干扰最多。亚裔学生的活动记录仪评估的睡眠效率最差，睡眠开始后的清醒时间最长，尽管他们报告的睡眠质量水平与其他群体相似。这些发现记录了不同大学生在一系列睡眠维度上的种族/民族睡眠差异，并为制定有针对性的机构层面干预措施以实现特定睡眠结果提供了见解。
