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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Health. 2018 Apr 14;4(3):258–264. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2018.03.002

Table 4.

Differences in selected variables by sleep quality (N=252)

Category Total Good sleep quality
(n=70)
Poor sleep quality
(n=182)

N (%)/Mean (SD) N (%)/Mean (SD) N (%)/Mean (SD) χ2 or t p
Age 53.88 (14.17) 54.44 (15.49) 53.66 (13.67) 0.39 .69

Gender
  Man 56 (22.2) 13 (18.6) 43 (23.6) 0.75 .49
  Woman 196 (77.8) 57 (81.4) 139 (76.4)

Education level
  ≤Hight school graduate 126 (50.00) 30 (42.9) 96 (52.7) 1.98 .21
  ≥College graduate 126 (50.00) 40 (57.1) 86 (47.3)

Current work
  Working Full Time 123 (48.81) 35 (50.0) 88 (48.4) 1.05 .59
  Working Part Time 30 (11.90) 6 (8.6) 24 (13.2)
  Unemployed 99 (39.29) 29 (41.4) 70 (38.5)

Annual household income
  0-$39,999 87 (34.5) 21 (30.0) 66 (36.3) 0.93 .82
  $40,000-$79,999 70 (27.8) 21 (30.0) 49 (26.9)
  More than $80,000 66 (26.2) 19 (27.1) 47 (25.8)
  Refused to answer 29 (11.5) 9 (12.9) 20 (11.0)

Number of comorbidities
  0 100 (39.7) 28 (40.0) 72 (39.6) 0.79 .68
  1–2 140 (55.6) 40 (57.1) 100 (54.9)
  3–4 12 (4.8) 2 (2.9) 10 (5.5)
Body mass index (kg/m2) 31.93 (6.48) 32.30 (6.95) 31.78 (6.30) 0.56 .57

Waist-hip ratio 0.88 (0.09) 0.88 (0.09) 0.88 (0.09) −0.17 .87

Body fat (%) 40.79 (10.24) 41.85 (10.07) 40.37 (10.30) 1.03 .31

Neighborhood environment
  Aesthetic quality 2.22 (0.83) 2.14 (0.87) 2.26 (0.81) −0.97 .33
  Walking environment 2.35 (0.71) 2.22 (0.62) 2.40 (0.73) −1.80 .07
  Availability of healthy foods 2.77 (1.07) 2.65 (1.09) 2.82 (1.06) −1.12 .26
  Safety 2.59 (1.04) 2.38 (1.04) 2.67 (1.03) −1.97 .05
  Social cohesion 2.47 (0.81) 2.30 (0.73) 2.53 (0.83) −2.05 .04*
  Violence 1.43 (0.61) 1.34 (0.51) 1.47 (0.64) −1.66 .09
  Total score 2.28 (0.62) 2.15 (0.59) 2.33 (0.63) −2.05 .04*

Sleep hygiene 23.10 (10.47) 17.07 (8.62) 25.41 (10.21) −6.05 .00**

DBAS
  Consequences of insomnia 4.18 (2.44) 3.09 (2.25) 4.60 (2.38) −4.60 .00**
  Worry about sleep 3.51 (2.16) 2.18 (1.62) 4.02 (2.13) −7.38 .00**
  Sleep expectations 5.98 (2.73) 5.74 (3.02) 6.07 (2.62) −0.85 .39
  Medication 2.57 (2.00) 1.80 (1.55) 2.86 (2.08) −4.40 .00**
  Total score 3.85 (1.80) 2.84 (1.46) 4.24 (1.78) −5.89 .00**

Note. Poor sleep quality means Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) global score of ≥ 5; Comorbidities include hypertension, stroke, myocardial infarction, chronic lung diseases, diabetes, and depression. Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes Sleep (DBAS);

**

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed);

*

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).