Short Sleep Duration Among Middle School and High School Students — United States, 2015

Wheaton, Anne G.; Jones, Sherry Everett; Cooper, Adina C.; Croft, Janet B.

doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6703a1

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“…A large proportion of adolescents in different countries around the world 1 , 2 get less than the recommended amount of nightly sleep 3 . Sleep deprivation has a negative impact on youth mental and physical health 4 , 5 .…”

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The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment

Gruber

Saha²,

Somerville

et al. 2020

Sleep Medicine

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Objective During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, high schools closed or transitioned to remote teaching. The aim of this study was to describe how the COVID-19 related school shutdown impacted the sleep behaviors of typically developing adolescents. Methods A qualitative study was conducted between April 28 and June 3, 2020 with 45 adolescents using one-on-one semi-structured phone interviews. Results The “natural experiment” caused by the shutdown of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 2-hour shift in the sleep of typically developing adolescents, longer sleep duration, improved sleep quality, and less daytime sleepiness compared to those experienced under the regular school-time schedule. Discussion These findings are consistent with previous studies showing that delaying high school start times could be an effective way to extend sleep duration, improve sleep quality, reduce daytime sleepiness and lower adolescents’ stress during the school year. As many countries look for ways to reduce the number of interactions between students in schools so that physical distancing is feasible, following teens’ delayed sleep biology could offer an affordable solution. For example, staggering arrival times by delaying school start time for older adolescents compared with younger adolescents can reduce the total number of students attending school at the same time. This strategy offers a practical means to reduce school density and the number of interactions between students which are needed to reduce the potential transmission of COVID-19 in schools, while improving adolescents sleep health.

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The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment

Gruber

Saha²,

Somerville

et al. 2020

Sleep Medicine

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“…Many countries around the world suffer from people of all ages getting less than the recommended amount of sleep [13]. In 2015, data from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) survey on risky behavior in children and adolescents in the United States showed that 57.8% of children in grades 6 to 8 and 72.2% of children in grades 9 to 12 did not get enough sleep while in school [14]. Sleep deprivation has been discussed in previous studies as a possible link to diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and malignant tumors [15,16] and experimental studies show that sleep deprivation could lead to weight gain in adults [17].…”

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Association of Sleep Duration and Overweight/Obesity among Children in China

Fan

Ding

Gong

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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To investigate the association of sleep duration with overweight and obesity among children aged 6 to 17 years in China, 2010–2012 data from the China National Nutrition and Health Surveillance (CNHHS) were analyzed. A total of 35,414 children were recruited in the survey. Body mass index (BMI) was converted into three categories: normal weight, overweight and obesity. In multinomial logistic regression model, sleep duration was divided into four groups: very short, short, recommended and long. In restricted cubic splines (RCS), sleep duration was examined as a continuous variable in relation to overweight and obesity. In the very short and short groups, sleep duration was a risk factor for obesity after adjusting for the potential impacts of age, gender, residence, family income, leisure sedentary behavior (SB) and leisure exercise, with OR (Odds Ratio) = 3.01 (95% CI (confidence interval): 2.19–4.15) and OR = 1.24 (95% CI: 1.14–1.35), respectively. The adjusted OR of overweight for short sleep duration relative to a recommended sleep duration was 1.17(95% CI: 1.09–1.26). No significant associations of very short sleep with overweight, of long sleep duration with overweight and obesity were found. The RCS curves between sleep duration and overweight and obesity were both inverted J-shaped. To conclude, the shorter the sleep duration, the higher the risk of overweight and obesity in children. Increasing sleep duration would have a positive effect on reducing overweight and obesity rates in Chinese children.

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“…Given adolescent sleep deprivation's association with increased risk of mental and physical health problems, pervasive mobile technology use is a much-discussed biological problem that derives from a social problem. In the USA, over 70% of 17-to 18-year-olds report insufficient sleep (Wheaton, Jones, Cooper, & Croft, 2018). Carter, Rees, Hale, Bhattacharjee, and Paradkar (2016) examined in a recent meta-analysis the relationship of mobile media device use with sleep outcomes for children (principally 10-to 18-year-olds).…”

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The Living Hand of the Past: The Role of Technology in Development

Pea

Cole

2019

Human Development

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“Technology” is lately equated with hardware and software, but for the Ancient Greeks, a technology combined two linked features: the doing of an art/craft (techne) and theorizing about the doing (technologia). We thus consider a “technology” as a “sociotechnical system” – an entanglement of humans with one another, the tools, arts, crafts, practices and institutionalized forms of life of their time. Writing systems and new media are each relevant to understanding the roles of technologies in development, considered at an ontogenetic or historical level. We consider two ostensibly conflicting claims by Piaget that lead to the question of how the postnatal environment fundamentally differs from the intrauterine environment and how this difference changes the process of development. Vygotsky’s focus on the cultural/historical mediation of social relations helps us understand the dynamic interplay of technology and development as part of a single process of human development – and to resolve Piaget’s multifaceted views. To illustrate the insights offered by our cultural-historical approach, we compare the ancient period coupled with the development of literacy/numeracy and current historical circumstances in which new digital technologies are the focus. These two cases illuminate ways current changes are replaying in new circumstances a developmental process as old as Homo sapiens.

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Short Sleep Duration Among Middle School and High School Students — United States, 2015

Cited by 290 publications

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The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment

The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment

Association of Sleep Duration and Overweight/Obesity among Children in China

The Living Hand of the Past: The Role of Technology in Development

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