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. 2023 Jul 21;10(7):1253.
doi: 10.3390/children10071253.

Effects of Adverse Events and 12-Week Group Step Aerobics on Sleep Quality in Chinese Adolescents

Yuwei Hu  1 , Xiyan Duan  1 , Zhuoran Zhang  2 , Chunxia Lu  1 , Yang Zhang  3
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Effects of Adverse Events and 12-Week Group Step Aerobics on Sleep Quality in Chinese Adolescents

Yuwei Hu et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: In China, sleep disorders have become a public health concern. This study aimed to model the relationship between adverse events and sleep quality, as well as the effect of group step aerobics on sleep quality.

Methods: The modeling was built on surveying 2760 16-19-year-old adolescents. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to evaluate sleep quality, and the Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Checklist (ASLEC) was used to evaluate adverse events. Adolescents with sleep disorders (PSQI ≥ 8) were randomized into the control (n = 26) and exercise (n = 26) groups. The exercise group participated in 12-week step aerobics, and the 300 min weekly volume is compliant with the WHO physical activity guidelines.

Results: The double Poisson distribution was chosen to fit the data. ASLEC had a nonlinear relationship with the PSQI. Participants in the exercise group slept better (p < 0.05) from the eighth week until the end of the study. A random adolescent, therefore, has a 92.5% probability of experiencing improved sleep quality after 12 weeks of step aerobics.

Conclusions: Intervention should be implemented before adverse events accumulate. An active lifestyle should be a preparedness strategy for increasing the resilience of adolescent mental health in the face of adversity.

Keywords: GAMLSS; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; anxiety; exercise; sleep disorders.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
A double Poisson model for the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score. (A) location plot of adverse events on PSQI; (B) partial effect of adverse events on PSQI.
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Density estimate of the DPO model’s randomized quantile residuals.
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