Self-Reported Sleep Characteristics
Self-reported sleep characteristics of the study participants are shown in Table 2. On average participants reported a sleep duration of 6 hours and 38 minutes. Forty-four percent of the sample were classified as short sleepers, reporting a sleep duration of < 7 hours per night. Only 14 participants reported a long sleep duration, defined as > 9 hours per night. As previous research identifies a u-shaped relationship between sleep duration and adverse health outcomes12,13,29, the fourteen participants reporting long sleep duration were removed from subsequent analyses due to the inability to examine long sleepers separately.