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Abstract
BackgroundThe World Health Organization has identified obesity as one of the most visible and neglected public health problems worldwide. Meta-analytic studies suggest that insufficient sleep increases the risk of developing obesity and related serious medical conditions. Unfortunately, the nationwide average sleep duration has steadily declined over the last two decades with 25% of U.S. adults reporting insufficient sleep. Stress is also an important indirect factor in obesity, and chronic stress and laboratory-induced stress negatively impact sleep. Despite what we know from basic sciences about (a) stress and sleep and (b) sleep and obesity, we know very little about how these factors actually manifest in a natural environment. The Assessing Daily Activity Patterns Through Occupational Transitions (ADAPT) study tests whether sleep disruption plays a key role in the development of obesity for individuals exposed to involuntary job loss, a life event that is often stressful and disrupting to an individual’s daily routine.MethodsThis is an 18-month closed, cohort research design examining social rhythms, sleep, dietary intake, energy expenditure, waist circumference, and weight gain over 18 months in individuals who have sustained involuntary job loss. Approximately 332 participants who lost their job within the last 3 months are recruited from flyers within the Arizona Department of Economic Security (AZDES) Unemployment Insurance Administration application packets and other related postings. Multivariate growth curve modeling will be used to investigate the temporal precedence of changes in social rhythms, sleep, and weight gain.DiscussionIt is hypothesized that: (1) unemployed individuals with less consistent social rhythms and worse sleep will have steeper weight gain trajectories over 18 months than unemployed individuals with stable social rhythms and better sleep; (2) disrupted sleep will mediate the relationship between social rhythm disruption and weight gain; and (3) reemployment will be associated with a reversal in the negative trajectories outlined above. Positive findings will provide support for the development of obesity prevention campaigns targeting sleep and social rhythms in an accessible subgroup of vulnerable individuals.
Highlights
The World Health Organization has identified obesity as one of the most visible and neglected public health problems worldwide
The Assessing Daily Activity Patterns Through Occupational Transitions (ADAPT) study aims to contribute to the scientific literature by examining how the proposed loss of daily activity and time structure resulting from job loss impacts sleep and weight change over time
Poor sleep quality is highly prevalent in the U.S [96], and the average sleep duration has steadily declined nationwide [97]
Summary
The World Health Organization has identified obesity as one of the most visible and neglected public health problems worldwide. The Assessing Daily Activity Patterns Through Occupational Transitions (ADAPT) study tests whether sleep disruption plays a key role in the development of obesity for individuals exposed to involuntary job loss, a life event that is often stressful and disrupting to an individual’s daily routine. The purpose of the Assessing Daily Activity Patterns through occupational Transitions (ADAPT) study is to examine weight change as a function of the changing interrelationships between daily behavioral patterns and sleep in the aftermath of a stressful life event – involuntary job loss. Despite a recent improvement in U.S unemployment rates, job loss remains a stressful life event that is associated with weight gain [4,5,6] and related negative health outcomes [7,8,9,10,11,12]. Unemployed individuals are more likely to have short or long sleep durations [22] and insomnia diagnoses characterized by difficulties maintaining sleep [23, 24]
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