Relationships between school start time, sleep duration, and adolescent behaviors

Wahlstrom, Kyla; Berger, Aaron T.; Widome, Rachel

doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2017.03.002

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“…In order to promote the health and well-being of adolescents, interventions to improve sleep duration are needed. There is strong evidence that delaying school start time can be the most effective method to benefi t adolescent sleep (32)(33)(34)(35)(36). The role of parental bedtime monitoring in relation to sleep duration is also hugely discussed in recent studies (13,15,24), therefore future research is needed to investigate this association in Slovak adolescents.…”

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Insufficient sleep duration is associated with worse self-rated health and more psychosomatic health complaints in adolescents

Kostičová¹,

Gecková²,

Dobiasova³

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between sleep duration and self-rated health and psychosomatic health complaints in a representative sample of Slovak adolescents aged 13 and 15 years. BACKGROUND: According to empirically supported recommendations adolescents age 13 to 18 years old should sleep 8 to 10 hours per 24 hours on a regular basis to promote optimal health. METHODS: We used data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study conducted in 2018 in Slovakia comprising 8,405 adolescents aged from 11 to 15 years (mean age 13.43; 50.9% boys). Presented are results for specifi c age groups of 13-years old (n = 1,909) and 15-years old (n = 1,293) adolescents. Linear regression models adjusted for age and gender were used to asses associations between sleep duration and self-rated health and psychosomatic complaints. The modifi cations of the associations by age and gender were also explored. RESULTS: Insuffi cient sleep duration (less than 8hours) was signifi cantly associated with worse self-rated health and more overall as well as specifi c psychosomatic health complaints including headache, backache, feeling low, irritability and bad temper, feeling nervous, sleeping diffi culties and feeling dizzy. CONCLUSION: In order to promote the health and well-being of adolescents, interventions to improve sleep duration are needed (Tab.

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Insufficient sleep duration is associated with worse self-rated health and more psychosomatic health complaints in adolescents

Kostičová¹,

Gecková²,

Dobiasova³

et al. 2019

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“…The relationships between high school starting times, adolescent sleep duration, mental health and substance use related issues and behaviors were examined from the Teen Sleep Habits Survey in the United States. It was found that later starting times were significantly associated with greater sleep duration and greater sleep duration was associated with fewer reports of various mental health and substance use related issues and behaviors (Wahlstrom et al 2017). The effects of SST on sleep duration of students were examined in a metaanalysis which included five longitudinal studies and 15 cross-sectional comparison group studies.…”

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Adolescents’ sleep/wake patterns and school schedules: towards flexibility

Louzada

Pereira

2018

Biological Rhythm Research

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In the literature, two main trends may be identified in the countermeasures associated to adolescents' sleep restriction: sleep education and changes in the school starting times. However, school educational programs have been able to increase knowledge about sleep, which did not necessarily result in behavioral changes. Later school start times have been proposed as a strategy to reduce the adolescents' sleep restriction but there is no consensus about the change. Longitudinal studies in adolescent populations are urgently needed in order to determine the efficacy of interventions aiming at a change in school starting times. Academic, behavioural, health and wellbeing variables could be monitored for an extensive period before and after implementing the new school schedule options, thereby enabling a within-subject experimental design. It is no longer acceptable to impose the 'one size fits all' approach on the school start times.

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“…Chronic sleep reduction can have detrimental effects on the lives of adolescents, with evidence linking it to decreased mental and physical alertness, increased feelings of anxiety, depression and hopelessness, poor academic performance, and obesity, among others (Dewald, Meijer, Oort, Kerkhof, & Bögels, 2010;Minges & Redeker, 2016;Paruthi et al, 2016;Perkinson-Gloor, Lemola, & Grob, 2013;Wahlstrom, Berger, & Widome, 2017).…”

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Effects of a 20 minutes delay in school start time on bed and wake up times, daytime tiredness, behavioral persistence, and positive attitude towards life in adolescents

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Relationships between school start time, sleep duration, and adolescent behaviors

Cited by 54 publications

References 31 publications

Insufficient sleep duration is associated with worse self-rated health and more psychosomatic health complaints in adolescents

Insufficient sleep duration is associated with worse self-rated health and more psychosomatic health complaints in adolescents

Adolescents’ sleep/wake patterns and school schedules: towards flexibility

Effects of a 20 minutes delay in school start time on bed and wake up times, daytime tiredness, behavioral persistence, and positive attitude towards life in adolescents

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