Behavioral and Social Sciences

Psychosocial and Neighborhood-Related Health Factors for Black and White Adults of the HANDLSleep Project

Chair(s)

• AG

  Alyssa Gamaldo, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Full Professor
  Health and Human Development and Family Studies
  Clemson University
  Clemson, South Carolina, United States

Discussant(s)

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  Orfeu Buxton, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Biobehavioral Health
  Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Individual Symposium Abstract First Author(s)

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  Lindsay Master, MAS (she/her/hers)

  Data Scientist
  Biobehavioral Health
  The Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
• AA

  Alexa Allan, M.A. (she/her/hers)

  Graduate Student
  Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS)
  The Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
• LJ

  Linying Ji, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Biobehavioral Health
  Montana State University
  Bozeman, Montana, United States
• YS

  Yuqi Shen, MHS (she/her/hers)

  Graduate Student
  Biobehavioral Health
  The Pennsylvania State University
  University Park, Pennsylvania, United States

Disparities in cognition and sleep have been observed in middle-aged and older Black and White adults. However, limited research has examined the association between cognition and sleep as well as the underlying psychosocial, contextual, and biomarker factors that explain this association. This symposium will include presentations using data from Healthy Aging in Neighborhood of Diversity Across the Life Span Sleep Study (HANDLSleep), which was conducted to explore psychosocial and contextual factors related to sleep and cognition in a sample of Black and White middle-aged and older adults in Baltimore, MD. The objectives of the proposed symposium are the following: (1) discuss the associations observed between sleep and cognition using cross-sectional and ambulatory data (2) discuss how psychosocial, contextual, and inflammatory markers relate to sleep and cognition. Master and colleagues explored the daily coupling associations between actigraphic sleep and working memory. Allan and colleagues explored the association between different dimensions of health (e.g., sleep and cognition) and objective and subjective measures of neighborhood quality. Linying and colleagues examined the extent that mean and variability of actigraphic sleep relate to global mental status. Lastly, Shen and colleagues explored the association between actigraphic sleep and inflammatory markers and the extent this association varies by race and sex.

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST

  Daily Associations of Actigraphic Sleep and Next-Day Working Memory in Midlife and Older Adults
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Lindsay Master, MAS (she/her/hers) – The Pennsylvania State University
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST

  Associations Between Measures of Health and Objective and Subjective Neighborhood Quality
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Alexa C. Allan, M.A. (she/her/hers) – The Pennsylvania State University
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST

  Associations of Mean and Variability of Actigraphic Sleep and General Cognitive Performance
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Linying Ji, PhD (she/her/hers) – Montana State University
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST

  Gender and Race as Moderators Between Actigraphy Sleep and Inflammatory Markers
  

  Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Yuqi Shen, MHS (she/her/hers) – The Pennsylvania State University