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. 2019 Apr 29;42(8):zsz108. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsz108

Table 2.

Prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals for poor sleep among 40 082 women who reported experiencing a traumatic childhood experience (TCE) compared to those who reported no TCE (The Sister Study)

Short sleep (<7 hours) Takes > 30 minutes to fall asleep
Model I Model II Model III Model I Model II Model III
PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI)
No reported trauma 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
 Any traumatic experience 1.08 (1.05 to 1.12) 1.08 (1.04 to 1.11) 1.08 (1.04 to 1.11) 1.18 (1.13 to 1.24) 1.17 (1.12 to 1.22) 1.11 (1.06 to 1.16)
 Natural disasters 1.21 (1.13 to 1.30) 1.17 (1.09 to 1.26) 1.18 (1.10 to 1.27) 1.24 (1.12 to 1.38) 1.19 (1.07 to 1.33) 1.14 (1.02 to 1.26)
 Major accidents 1.10 (1.01 to 1.19) 1.09 (1.01 to 1.19) 1.09 (1.00 to 1.18) 1.33 (1.19 to 1.47) 1.29 (1.16 to 1.43) 1.21 (1.09 to 1.35)
 Household dysfunction 1.09 (1.04 to 1.14) 1.09 (1.04 to 1.13) 1.09 (1.04 to 1.14) 1.27 (1.20 to 1.34) 1.25 (1.18 to 1.32) 1.16 (1.09 to 1.23)
 Sexual trauma 1.13 (1.08 to 1.18) 1.11 (1.07 to 1.16) 1.11 (1.06 to 1.16) 1.26 (1.19 to 1.33) 1.23 (1.16 to 1.30) 1.15 (1.08 to 1.22)
 Physical trauma 1.17 (1.11 to 1.23) 1.13 (1.07 to 1.19) 1.13 (1.07 to 1.19) 1.47 (1.37 to 1.58) 1.41 (1.32 to 1.52) 1.29 (1.20 to 1.39)
 Psychological/emotional 1.10 (1.06 to 1.14) 1.09 (1.05 to 1.13) 1.09 (1.05 to 1.13) 1.24 (1.18 to 1.30) 1.22 (1.16 to 1.28) 1.15 (1.10 to 1.21)
Awakened ≥ 3 times once asleep ≥3 times/week Napping ≥3 times per week
Model I Model II Model III Model I Model II Model IIIa
PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI) PR (95% CI)
No reported trauma 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
 Any traumatic experience 1.10 (1.05 to 1.16) 1.09 (1.04 to 1.15) 1.06 (1.00 to 1.11) 1.13 (1.07 to 1.20) 1.11 (1.05 to 1.18) 1.05 (0.99 to 1.12)
 Natural disasters 1.18 (1.04 to 1.34) 1.15 (1.01 to 1.31) 1.12 (0.98 to 1.27) 1.18 (1.02 to 1.37) 1.13 (0.98 to 1.31) 1.08 (0.93 to 1.26)
 Major accidents 1.18 (1.04 to 1.35) 1.17 (1.03 to 1.34) 1.13 (0.99 to 1.29) 1.15 (0.98 to 1.34) 1.12 (0.95 to 1.31) 1.05 (0.90 to 1.23)
 Household dysfunction 1.15 (1.07 to 1.23) 1.14 (1.06 to 1.22) 1.09 (1.01 to 1.17) 1.18 (1.09 to 1.28) 1.16 (1.07 to 1.26) 1.09 (1.00 to 1.18)
 Sexual trauma 1.23 (1.15 to 1.32) 1.22 (1.13 to 1.30) 1.16 (1.08 to 1.24) 1.16 (1.07 to 1.26) 1.11 (1.02 to 1.21) 1.04 (0.95 to 1.13)
 Physical trauma 1.29 (1.18 to 1.40) 1.25 (1.15 to 1.37) 1.18 (1.08 to 1.29) 1.28 (1.16 to 1.41) 1.23 (1.11 to 1.36) 1.11 (1.00 to 1.23)
 Psychological/emotional 1.12 (1.06 to 1.19) 1.11 (1.05 to 1.17) 1.07 (1.01 to 1.13) 1.15 (1.08 to 1.23) 1.13 (1.05 to 1.20) 1.06 (0.99 to 1.13)

Childhood household educational attainment was determined by adult(s) who lived in the household and were legally responsible for participant at age 13 years. All traumatic childhood experiences include non-mutually exclusive events that occurred at <18 years. Model I adjusted for age (at the time of questionnaire completion), childhood adverse SES score (summary variable of yes answers ranging from 0 to 3 of the following questions: low/poor self-reported income growing up, household educational attainment at age 13 <high school, and food insecurity) and race/ethnicity. Model II further adjusted for the following variables measured at baseline: marital status, educational attainment, alcohol consumption, and smoking status. Model III further adjusted for the following variables measured at baseline: body mass index and clinical depression. Bolded values indicate statistical significance.

aWhere log-binomial models did not converge due to sparseness of data, Poisson regression with robust variance estimator was used.