Day-to-day associations between sleep and physical activity: a set of person-specific analyses in adults with overweight and obesity

• Published in: Journal of behavioral medicine Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 14 - 27
• Main Authors: Chevance, Guillaume, Baretta, Dario, Romain, Ahmed Jérôme, Godino, Job G., Bernard, Paquito
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-02-2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Body weight; Complications and side effects; Exercise; Family Medicine; General Practice; Health aspects; Health Psychology; Humans; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Obesity; Obesity in adolescence; Overweight; Physical activity; Physiological aspects; Polysomnography; Sleep; Time use; Young Adult; Young adults; United States; Idiographic analyses; Exercise; Precision medicine; Personalized medicine
• ISSN: 0160-7715; 1573-3521; 1573-3521
• DOI: 10.1007/s10865-021-00254-6

The objective of the present study was to estimate whether physical activity on one day was associated with both sleep quality and quantity the following night and to examine to what extent sleep on one night was associated with physical activity the next day. We collected data from 33 young adults who were overweight or obese and consistently wore a Fitbit Charge 3. A total of 7094 days and nights were analyzed. Person-specific models were conducted to test the bi-directional associations for each participant separately. Results suggest an absence of association between steps and sleep efficiency in the two directions. More heterogeneous results were observed for the association between steps and total sleep time, with 19 participants (58%) showing a negative association between total sleep time and next day steps, and 9 (27%) showing a negative association between steps and next day total sleep time. Taken together, these results suggest a potential conflicting association between total sleep time and physical activity for some participants. Pre- and post-print doi:
https://doi.org/10.31236/osf.io/nfjqv
; supplemental material:
https://osf.io/y7nxg/
.