Interactive vs passive screen time and nighttime sleep duration among school-aged children

Abstract

Background Insufficient sleep among school-aged children is a growing concern, as numerous studies have shown that chronic short sleep duration increases the risk of poor academic performance and specific adverse health outcomes. We examined the association between weekday nighttime sleep duration and 3 types of screen exposure: television, computer use, and video gaming. Methods We used age 9 data from an ethnically diverse national birth cohort study, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to assess the association between screen time and sleep duration among 9-year-olds, using screen time data reported by both the child (n = 3269) and by the child's primary caregiver (n= 2770). Results Within the child-reported models, children who watched more than 2 hours of television per day had shorter sleep duration by approximately 11 minutes per night compared to those who watched less than 2 hours of television (β = −0.18; P < .001). Using the caregiver-reported models, both television and computer use were associated with reduced sleep duration. For both child- and parent-reported screen time measures, we did not find statistically significant differences in effect size across various types of screen time. Conclusions Screen time from televisions and computers is associated with reduced sleep duration among 9-year-olds, using 2 sources of estimates of screen time exposure (child and parent reports). No specific type or use of screen time resulted in significantly shorter sleep duration than another, suggesting that caution should be advised against excessive use of all screens.

Agreement between jaw‐muscle activity measurement with portable single‐channel electromyography and polysomnography in children

“…The results are independent on the length of the recording period, which was not different between the five recording nights with GCM and the night with PSG. As an additional note, the sleep time in this investigation is comparable with the measuring time described in the literature for children aged between 8 and 12 years. There are, however, no data available for comparison as far as the number of episodes/h are concerned.…”

Cardiovascular disease risk factor clustering in children and adolescents: a prospective cohort study

“…Several studies have described that sleep duration is linked to insulin resistance,32 33 and a recent study reported that slow wave sleep disruption markedly induced insulin resistance 34. Screen time, which is representative of inactivity among children35 and associated with sleep duration,36 is also related to CVD-RFC. After the interaction between screen time and sleep duration was carefully considered, sleep duration remained as a significant variable of CVD-RFC, that is, shorter sleep duration was significantly associated with CVD-RFC (sleep duration of <8 hour/day: HR 2.06, 95% CI 1.09 to 3.90; 8–9 hour/day: HR 1.90, 95% CI 1.02 to 3.54).…”

Objectively-Measured Smartphone Usage, Sleep Quality, and Physical Activity Among Chinese Adolescents and Young Adults

“…In addition to social network apps, instant messaging apps were also commonly used among our subjects, and we found no association between its use and all sleep outcomes. It was hypothesized that it is di cult to top oneself from messaging, which thereby delays sleep onset, and this was supported by studies showed that texting was negatively associated with sleep quality [40] and its effect was the strongest on sleep duration among other electronic screen usages [41].…”