A National Survey of U.S. Adolescent Sleep Duration, Timing, and Social Jetlag During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wesley, Katherine L.; Cooper, Emily; Brinton, John T.; Meier, Maxene; Honaker, Sarah Morsbach; Simon, Stacey L.

doi:10.1080/15402002.2022.2086871

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“…Our findings join the growing literature supporting shifting school start times to provide adolescents opportunity for sufficient sleep. Also consistent with other studies (Wesley et al, 2022), we observed reductions in social jet lag during the pandemic, suggesting that the participants were able to pursue sleep schedules aligned with their preferences on school/work nights, with less need for catch‐up sleep on weekends.…”

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Pre‐pandemic circadian phase predicts pandemic alcohol use among adolescents

Hasler

Wallace

Graves

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryLater circadian timing during adolescence is linked to worse sleep, more severe depression and greater alcohol involvement, perhaps due to circadian misalignment imposed by early school schedules. School schedules shifted later during the COVID‐19 pandemic, ostensibly reducing circadian misalignment and potentially mitigating problems with depression and alcohol. We used the pandemic as a natural experiment to test whether adolescent drinkers with later circadian timing showed improvements in sleep, depression and alcohol involvement. Participants were 42 adolescents reporting alcohol use. We assessed circadian phase via dim light melatonin onset prior to the pandemic, then conducted remote assessments of sleep, depressive symptoms and alcohol use during the pandemic. Mixed‐effects models were used to test for pandemic effects, covarying for age, sex, time since baseline evaluation, and current school/work status. Adolescents with later circadian timing reported less sleep than other teens on school nights, both before and during the pandemic. Although school night sleep increased during the pandemic (F = 28.36, p < 0.001), those increases were not greater for individuals with later circadian timing. Individuals with later circadian timing reported larger increases in alcohol use than other teens during the pandemic (X2 = 36.03, p < 0.001). Depressive symptoms increased during the pandemic (X2 = 46.51, p < 0.001) but did not differ based on circadian timing. Consistent with prior reports, adolescents with later circadian timing obtained less sleep, and later school schedules facilitated increased sleep duration. Nonetheless, individuals with later circadian timing reported the sharpest increases in alcohol use, suggesting that circadian timing contributes to risk for alcohol use beyond the effects of insufficient sleep.

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Pre‐pandemic circadian phase predicts pandemic alcohol use among adolescents

Hasler

Wallace

Graves

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…After deduplication, we assessed 24,926 abstracts for eligibility (see Figure 1). After the screening process, 191 studies were included in the systematic review 50,51,56–244 with a total...…”

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Prevalence of mental health symptoms in children and adolescents during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A meta‐analysis

Deng

Zhou

Hou

et al. 2022

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying infection control measures introduced sudden and significant disruptions to the lives of children and adolescents around the world. Given the potential for negative impacts on the mental health of youths as a result of these changes, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and sleep disturbances in children and adolescents during the pandemic. We searched major literature databases for relevant cross-sectional or longitudinal studies that included primary and secondary school students or children and adolescents ≤18 years of age. Prevalence values were extracted, logit-transformed, and pooled. Based on 191 included studies with 1,389,447 children and adolescents, we found the pooled prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and sleep disturbances to be 31%, 31%, and 42%, respectively. Age, grade levels, education levels, gender, geographical regions, and electronics use were correlated with the prevalence of mental health symptoms. The prevalence of mental health symptoms also increased with time, although signs of recovery and stabilization were also observed. Overall, the results from this

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“…These findings are consistent with sleep trends observed across large cross-sectional studies of adolescents in the United Kingdom [ 16 ], Switzerland [ 17 ], and Korea [ 18 ] that also reported increases in sleep duration and a tendency for later bed and wake times. Studies relying on retrospective reports of pre-pandemic sleep in Singapore, India, Italy, Canada and the United States (U.S.) echoed these increases in duration and delays in bedtime [ [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] ], with one global survey reporting 90% of adolescents going to bed past 10pm on weekdays (compared to only 57% prior to lockdown) [ 24 ]. In China, where the first COVID-19 cases were documented, findings on sleep duration were mixed [ 25 , 26 ], though researchers observed quite high rates of insomnia symptoms (23%) among adolescents [ 7 ].…”

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confidence: 99%