The impact of light and temperature on sleep in children and adolescents

Associations Between Multidimensional Sleep Health Parameters and Adolescents’ Self-reported Light Exposure in the Free-living Environment

“…Studies examining the associations between exposure to light-emitting electronic devices at night and the sleep health of typically developing adolescents have yielded mixed findings. Some reported that such exposure was associated with shorter (Baiden et al, 2019; Bartel et al, 2019; Mireku et al, 2019; Perrault et al, 2019; Stine et al, 2021) or delayed (Bartel et al, 2019; Mireku et al, 2019; Perrault et al, 2019) sleep, while some (Belmon et al, 2021; da Costa et al, 2021; Gumport et al, 2021) found no such association (for a review, see Gruber and Gauthier-Gagné, 2022). Other studies found that longer exposure to sunlight during the day was associated with a longer sleep duration (Baradaran Mahdavi et al, 2020; Zheng et al, 2019), higher levels of artificial light at night were associated with a later weeknight bedtime, and lower levels of artificial light at night were associated with a longer weeknight sleep duration (Paksarian et al, 2020).…”