Gender and Regional Differences in Sleep Quality and Insomnia: A General Population-based Study in Hunan Province of China

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 43690
• Main Authors: Tang, Jinsong, Liao, Yanhui, Kelly, Brian C., Xie, Liqin, Xiang, Yu-Tao, Qi, Chang, Pan, Chen, Hao, Wei, Liu, Tieqiao, Zhang, Fengyu, Chen, Xiaogang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 06.03.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/378; 692/308/174; 692/699/476; Adult; Cigarette smoking; Cross-Sectional Studies; Drinking behavior; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; Mental health; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Population; Population studies; Population Surveillance; Population-based studies; Prevalence; Regional differences; Regression analysis; Risk Factors; Rural areas; Rural Population; Science; Sex Factors; Sleep; Sleep - physiology; Sleep disorders; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - epidemiology; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - etiology; Urban areas; Urban Population; Well being; Young Adult; China; Hunan China

Insomnia and the inability to sleep affect people’s health and well-being. However, its systematic estimates of prevalence and distribution in the general population in China are still lacking. A population-based cluster sampling survey was conducted in the rural and urban areas of Hunan, China. Sub...