2017
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.6660
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Later School Start Times: What Informs Parent Support or Opposition?

Abstract: Study Objectives: To investigate parental knowledge about adolescent sleep needs, and other beliefs that may inform their support for or objection to later school start times. Methods: In 2014, we conducted a cross-sectional, Internet-based survey of a nationally representative sample of parents as part of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. Parents with teens aged 13-17 years reported their children's sleep patterns and school schedules, and whether the parents supported late… Show more

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“…We fielded the Vanderbilt Child Health COVID-19 Poll from June 5 to 10, 2020, using the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, a large online research panel created by using probability-based address sampling of US households. [8][9][10][11][12][13] Households without Internet at the time of recruitment are provided with an Internet-enabled tablet. Participants in KnowledgePanel receive nominal periodic incentives to participate.…”
Section: Data Collectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We fielded the Vanderbilt Child Health COVID-19 Poll from June 5 to 10, 2020, using the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, a large online research panel created by using probability-based address sampling of US households. [8][9][10][11][12][13] Households without Internet at the time of recruitment are provided with an Internet-enabled tablet. Participants in KnowledgePanel receive nominal periodic incentives to participate.…”
Section: Data Collectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although some school districts have experimented with pushing back school start times and have found associated benefits for youth (Wheaton et al, 2016), there are other factors that make it unlikely that this time shift will be adopted on a large scale. For example, pushing back start times would likely push back times that schools finish and make extracurricular activities end even later, there may be some increased costs due to transportation (e.g., buses, public transportation) moving to later, some parents do not believe or understand the sleep‐cycle shift in circadian rhythms or sleep needs for teens, some parents need their teens home in the afternoons to watch the younger siblings while the parent is still at work, some school teachers may not want to move their workday later to accommodate later start times for high schools (especially if they have their own younger children that would get out of school earlier than the high school and they would need to arrange childcare in the new schedule scenario), parents' work schedules could be incompatible with having teens start school later than the parent has to leave for work, and other reasons (e.g., Dunietz et al, 2017; Everettsd.org, 2022). Some groups have formally argued against later starting times as being inherently discriminatory, having more damaging effects on children in families with single parents or low education, where the older siblings are needed to offset childcare costs for younger siblings while the parent is at work (e.g., Cal Matters, 2019).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Vanderbilt Child Health Poll was administered from October 2 to November 9, 2020, using the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, an online research platform created using address-based sampling that has been used for many studies of health. [11][12][13][14][15][16] Ipsos provided households with Internet access and hardware when needed and used an online data collection tool to collect responses for this study. Electronic administration of the survey was used to reduce the burden on respondents and to increase response rates.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%