Officer-Involved Killings of Unarmed Black People and Racial Disparities in Sleep Health.
JAMA Intern Med
; 184(4): 363-373, 2024 Apr 01.
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ABSTRACT
Importance Racial disparities in sleep health may mediate the broader health outcomes of structural racism. Objective:
To assess changes in sleep duration in the Black population after officer-involved killings of unarmed Black people, a cardinal manifestation of structural racism. Design, Setting, andParticipants:
Two distinct difference-in-differences analyses examined the changes in sleep duration for the US non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) population before vs after exposure to officer-involved killings of unarmed Black people, using data from adult respondents in the US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS; 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018) and the American Time Use Survey (ATUS; 2013-2019) with data on officer-involved killings from the Mapping Police Violence database. Data analyses were conducted between September 24, 2021, and September 12, 2023. Exposures Occurrence of any police killing of an unarmed Black person in the state, county, or commuting zone of the survey respondent's residence in each of the four 90-day periods prior to interview, or occurence of a highly public, nationally prominent police killing of an unarmed Black person anywhere in the US during the 90 days prior to interview. Main Outcomes andMeasures:
Self-reported total sleep duration (hours), short sleep (<7 hours), and very short sleep (<6 hours).Results:
Data from 181â¯865 Black and 1â¯799â¯757 White respondents in the BRFSS and 9858 Black and 46â¯532 White respondents in the ATUS were analyzed. In the larger BRFSS, the majority of Black respondents were between the ages of 35 and 64 (99â¯014 [weighted 51.4%]), women (115â¯731 [weighted 54.1%]), and college educated (100â¯434 [weighted 52.3%]). Black respondents in the BRFSS reported short sleep duration at a rate of 45.9%, while White respondents reported it at a rate of 32.6%; for very short sleep, the corresponding values were 18.4% vs 10.4%, respectively. Statistically significant increases in the probability of short sleep and very short sleep were found among Black respondents when officers killed an unarmed Black person in their state of residence during the first two 90-day periods prior to interview. Magnitudes were larger in models using exposure to a nationally prominent police killing occurring anywhere in the US. Estimates were equivalent to 7% to 16% of the sample disparity between Black and White individuals in short sleep and 13% to 30% of the disparity in very short sleep. Conclusions and Relevance Sleep health among Black adults worsened after exposure to officer-involved killings of unarmed Black individuals. These empirical findings underscore the role of structural racism in shaping racial disparities in sleep health outcomes.
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01-internacional
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1_ASSA2030
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Aplicação da Lei
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Grupos Raciais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
JAMA Intern Med
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article