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. 2026 Jul 10;14:1880890. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1880890

Table 2.

The prevalence of good sleep quality and sleep durations among men and women aged 60 + years by selected characteristics in this study (N = 5,484).

Characteristics % (n/N) of participants with good sleep quality % (n/N) of participants within categories of sleep time (hour/day)
PSQI-based good sleep quality (PSQI≤7)a χ 2 p-valueb Self-rated good sleep qualityc χ 2 p-valueb 7.0–7.9 6.0–6.9 8.0–8.9 <6.0 ≥9.0 χ 2 p-valueb
Overall 77.7 (4,263/5484) 86.7 (4,754/5484) 30.3 (1,664/5484) 22.9 (1,255/5484) 24.8 (1,359/5484) 13.4 (735/5484) 8.6 (471/5484)
Age (years) 60–69 80.1 (2,528/3157) 87.0 (2,748/3157) 31.5 (996/3157) 21.6 (681/3157) 25.7 (810/3157) 13.3 (421/3157) 7.9 (249/3157)
70–79 77.0 (1,318/1711) 46.37 <0.001 87.1 (1,491/1711) 5.73 0.057 29.9 (511/1711) 24.5 (420/1711) 22.7 (389/1711) 13.4 (229/1711) 9.5 (162/1711) 20.69 0.008
80+ 67.7 (417/616) 83.6 (515/616) 25.5 (157/616) 25.0 (154/616) 26.0 (160/616) 13.8 (85/616) 9.7 (60/616)
Gender Men 80.1 (2,153/2687) 17.41 <0.001 89.0 (2,392/2687) 24.84 <0.001 30.3 (814/2687) 22.1 (594/2687) 25.0 (673/2687) 13.0 (349/2687) 9.6 (257/2687) 8.07 0.089
Women 75.4 (2,110/2797) 84.4 (2,362/2797) 30.4 (850/2797) 23.6 (661/2797) 24.5 (686/2797) 13.8 (386/2797) 7.7 (214/2797)
Area d Urban 76.4 (1,639/2144) 3.38 0.066 86.7 (1858/2144) 0.002 0.961 29.9 (641/2144) 25.6 (548/2144) 22.2 (476/2144) 15.1 (324/2144) 7.2 (155/2144) 35.94 <0.001
Suburban 78.6 (2,624/3340) 86.7 (2,896/3340) 30.6 (1,023/3340) 21.2 (707/3340) 26.4 (883/3340) 12.3 (411/3340) 9.5 (316/3340)
Educational attainment (schooling years) 0–6 75.7 (2060/2721) 86.0 (2,340/2721) 29.4 (799/2721) 21.8 (593/2721) 25.6 (696/2721) 13.2 (358/2721) 10.1 (275/2721)
7-,12 79.5 (1960/2465) 13.46 0.001 87.2 (2,149/2465) 2.94 0.230 32.0 (788/2465) 24.1 (594/2465) 23.5 (579/2465) 13.6 (336/2465) 6.8 (168/2465) 28.55 <0.001
13+ 81.5 (243/298) 88.9 (256/298) 25.8 (77/298) 22.8 (68/298) 28.2 (84/298) 13.8 (41/298) 9.4 (28/298)
Occupation e Domestic worker 82.2 (884/1075) 87.7 (943/1075) 29.7 (319/1075) 20.0 (215/1075) 29.8 (320/1075) 10.6 (114/1075) 10.0 (107/1075)
Industrial worker 74.0 (1722/2327) 86.2 (2006/2327) 30.2 (703/2327) 22.9 (532/2327) 20.8 (483/2327) 17.1 (399/2327) 9.0 (210/2327)
Service/sales worker 81.4 (275/338) 36.34 <0.001 86.7 (293/338) 6.03 0.303 32.8 (111/338) 17.2 (58/338) 29.6 (100/338) 14.8 (50/338) 5.6 (19/338) 129.63 <0.001
Office worker 78.8 (349/443) 89.2 (395/443) 26.0 (115/443) 26.6 (118/443) 30.5 (135/443) 12.6 (56/443) 4.3 (19/443)
Academic/research staff 79.9 (307/384) 84.1 (323/384) 30.2 (116/384) 23.7 (91/384) 23.4 (90/384) 12.2 (47/384) 10.4 (40/384)
Self-employed 79.2 (726/917) 86.6 (794/917) 32.7 (300/917) 26.3 (241/917) 25.2 (231/917) 7.5 (69/917) 8.3 (76/917)
Marital status Single 68.7 (521/758) 41.18 <0.001 81.4 (617/758) 21.33 <0.001 27.3 (207/758) 23.0 (174/758) 23.2 (176/758) 17.8 (135/758) 8.7 (66/758) 16.30 0.003
Married/having a partner 79.2 (3,742/4726) 87.5 (4,137/4726) 30.8 (1,457/4726) 22.9 (1,081/4726) 25.0 (1,183/4726) 12.7 (600/4726) 8.6 (405/4726)
Smoking f No 77.4 (3,226/4168) 1.13 0.287 86.2 (3,591/4168) 4.26 0.039 30.3 (1,262/4168) 23.2 (966/4168) 25.1 (1,046/4168) 13.1 (548/4168) 8.3 (346/4168) 3.88 0.423
Yes 78.8 (1,037/1316) 88.4 (1,163/1316) 30.5 (402/1316) 22.0 (289/1316) 23.8 (313/1316) 14.2 (187/1316) 9.5 (125/1316)
Drinking g No 77.3 (3,689/4773) 4.24 0.040 86.3 (4,121/4773) 3.88 0.049 30.3 (1,444/4773) 23.1 (1,101/4773) 24.9 (1,189/4773) 13.5 (644/4773) 8.3 (395/4773) 5.30 0.258
Yes 80.7 (574/711) 89.0 (633/711) 30.9 (220/711) 21.7 (154/711) 23.9 (170/711) 12.8 (91/711) 10.7 (76/711)
Body weight status h BMI < 24 76.2 (1787/2346) 86.3 (2024/2346) 29.4 (690/2346) 22.5 (529/2346) 25.7 (604/2346) 13.6 (320/2346) 8.7 (203/2346)
24 ≤ BMI < 28 78.5 (1800/2293) 6.59 0.037 86.7 (1987/2293) 1.48 0.478 31.1 (713/2293) 22.5 (517/2293) 24.3 (558/2293) 13.3 (306/2293) 8.7 (199/2293) 4.95 0.763
BMI ≥ 28 80.0 (676/845) 87.9 (743/845) 30.9 (261/845) 24.7 (209/845) 23.3 (197/845) 12.9 (109/845) 8.2 (69/845)

a: PSQI-based sleep quality was categorized as “good (PSQI ≤7)” or “poor (PSQI >7).” b: Chi-square test. c: Self-rated sleep quality was classified as “good (excellent or good)” or “poor (poor or very poor).” d: Areas were categorized as urban and suburban districts based on the official classifications released by China National Bureau of Statistics. e: Occupation referred to job before retirement, and was classified for each participant based on recommendations by China National Center for Chronic Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Control. f: Smoking status was defined as smokers (current- and ex-smokers) and non-smokers (who never smoked cigarettes). g: Drinkers were defined as persons who drank alcohol, on average, at least two times a week for more than 1 year, while non-drinkers were those people who did not meet drinker’s definition. h: Body weight status was categorized based on cutoffs of body mass index (BMI) recommendations for Chinese adults.