Open AccessParallel Assessment Challenges in Nutritional and Sleep Epidemiology
Author(s) -
Galit Levi Dunietz,
Erica C. Jansen,
Shelley Hershner,
Louise M. O’Brien,
Karen E. Peterson,
Ana Baylin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33
H-Index - 256
eISSN - 1476-6256
pISSN - 0002-9262
DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwaa230
Subject(s) - epidemiology , public health , medicine , sleep (system call) , population , environmental health , gerontology , pathology , computer science , operating system
Sleep has been consistently linked to health outcomes in clinical studies, but only in recent years has sleep become a focus in epidemiologic studies and public health. In particular, the sizable prevalence of insufficient sleep in the population warrants well-designed epidemiologic studies to examine its impact on public health. As a developing field, sleep epidemiology encounters methodological challenges similar to those faced by nutritional epidemiology research. In this article, we describe a few central challenges related to assessment of sleep duration in population-based studies in comparison with measurement challenges in nutritional epidemiology. In addition, we highlight 3 strategies applied in nutritional epidemiology to address measurement challenges and suggest ways these strategies could be implemented in large-scale sleep investigations.