Binge drinking profile and sleep duration among Panamanian college professors and administrative workers

Experts recommend that adults should regularly sleep at least 7 hours per night to benefit health and avoid negative outcomes. Binge drinking is the most common pattern of harmful alcohol consumption in the United States and is associated with injuries and diseases.

To investigate the association between sleep duration recommendations and binge drinking among Panamanian college professors and administrative workers.

A cross-sectional study was conducted with 253 Panamanian professors and college administrative workers (171 women, 82 men) from four cities, affiliated with a private university, between June and December 2022. Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses were performed using logistic regression models. Data were collected according to the World Health Organization Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factor Surveillance method.

A total of 23.32% of participants reported binge drinking, while only 2.77% reported smoking. Men had a higher prevalence of binge drinking (p = 0.010) and smoking (p = 0.026) than women. Regarding sleep duration, 50.59% of participants did not meet the recommendation of 7 hours of sleep per night. After adjusting for sex, age, and socioeconomic level, binge drinking was associated with not meeting sleep duration recommendations (odds ratio: 2.049, 95%CI 1.0102-3.810, p = 0.023).

Participants who reported binge drinking had a higher likelihood of not meeting the Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society recommendations on sleep duration.