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DOI 10.3390/ijerph17134894
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Title (Primary) Impact of residential green space on sleep quality and sufficiency in children and adolescents residing in Australia and Germany
Author Feng, X.; Flexeder, C.; Markevych, I.; Standl, M.; Heinrich, J.; Schikowski, T.; Koletzko, S.; Herberth, G. ORCID logo ; Bauer, C.-P.; von Berg, A.; Berdel, D.; Astell-Burt, T.
Source Titel International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Year 2020
Department IMMU
Volume 17
Issue 13
Page From art. 4894
Language englisch
Supplements https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/13/4894/s1
Keywords green space; children; epidemiology; noise; sleep
Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests adults living in greener areas tend to have more favourable sleep-related outcomes, but children and adolescents are under-researched. We hypothesised that children and adolescents living in greener areas would have better quality and more sufficient levels of sleep on average, especially within the context of high traffic noise exposure. These hypotheses were tested using multilevel logistic regressions fitted on samples from the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (10–11 years old, n = 3469, and 14–15 years old, n = 2814) and the GINIplus and LISA cohorts (10 years old, n = 1461, and 15 years old, n = 4172) from the Munich, Wesel, and Leipzig areas of Germany. Questionnaire-based binary indicators of sleep sufficiency and sleep quality in each cohort were assessed with respect to objectively measured green space exposures adjusting for age, sex, and maternal education. Models were augmented with proxy measures of traffic noise and two-way interaction terms to test for effect modification. Cross-tabulations illustrated little convincing evidence of association between green space and insufficient sleep or poor sleep quality in either sample, except for insufficient sleep among 10 year old participants in Germany. These null findings were replicated in adjusted models. The proxy for traffic noise was associated with poor quality sleep in 15 year old participants in Germany, but no convincing evidence of modified association with green space was observed.

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Feng, X., Flexeder, C., Markevych, I., Standl, M., Heinrich, J., Schikowski, T., Koletzko, S., Herberth, G., Bauer, C.-P., von Berg, A., Berdel, D., Astell-Burt, T. (2020):
Impact of residential green space on sleep quality and sufficiency in children and adolescents residing in Australia and Germany
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 17 (13), art. 4894 10.3390/ijerph17134894