There is a body of evidence showing the benefits of synchronizing education times with teens» body clocks; interestingly, while «studies of later start times have consistently reported benefits to
adolescent sleep health and learning, there [is no evidence] showing early starts have a positive impact on such things», add the researchers.
Not exact matches
Sleep deprivation has also been associated with impulsive behavior and delinquency, emphasizing its importance to emotional
health among
adolescents.
Sleep is widely recognized as one of the basic pillars of human
health and is essential to optimal growth and development in children and
adolescents.
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Adolescent sleep duration is associated with daytime mood: Promoting healthy
sleep in
adolescents could potentially prevent development of more serious mental
health problems for some teens.»
«Declines in self - reported
adolescent sleep across the last 20 years are concerning and suggest that there is potentially a significant public
health concern that warrants
health education and literacy approaches.»
Sufficient
sleep is critical for
adolescent health, yet the number of hours
slept per night has decreased among teenagers in the United States over the last 20 years.
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Sleep deprivation is epidemic among
adolescents, with potentially serious impacts on mental and physical
health, safety and learning.
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«Children and
adolescents who don't get enough
sleep are at increased risk for obesity, diabetes, injuries, poor mental
health, and attention and behavior problems, which can affect them academically,» said report author Anne Wheaton, a CDC epidemiologist.
«While more research is needed, accumulating evidence exists to suggest that energy drink consumption is linked to adverse cardiovascular events,
sleep disturbances, and other substance use among
adolescents,» says Amelia Arria, director of the University of Maryland School of Public
Health's Center for Young Adult
Health and Development and co-author of the recent energy drink and alcohol study.
Adults need at least 7 hours of
sleep for optimal
health and even greater durations are recommended for athletes,
adolescents, and children.
Syda - Productions / ShutterstockSleep has been a hot topic over the past few years, and with good reason: According to the National Institute of
Health, more than one - third of adults don't get the recommended 7 to 8 hours of
sleep per night, and evidence shows that even children and
adolescents sleep less than needed.
If
sleep deficits across the school term are found to be a predictor of mental
health status in
adolescents and, further, if cumulative
sleep deficits are found to be related to increases in mental
health problems, then results from this study could be used to develop targeted
sleep intervention programs (trials of which are currently underway with members of this research team) and / or clinic - based intervention programs that aim to improve
adolescents»
sleep and mental
health or even avoid them in the first place.
This study will be the first to examine the effects of longer - term
sleep loss (in both quality and quantity) on
adolescent males» mental
health across the course of a school term.
Her research includes examining associations of
sleep regulatory mechanisms to
sleep / wake behavior of children,
adolescents, and young adults and her findings have raised public
health issues regarding consequences of insufficient
sleep in
adolescents and concerns about early school start times.
The main aim is to determine the impact of changes in
sleep quantity and quality on
adolescent mental
health and well - being over the course of a school term.
Health - promoting behavior involved 3 dichotomized items indicating the number of days the
adolescent got enough
sleep (1 = 7 days, 0 = 0 — 6 days) and got aerobic exercise (1 = 4 — 7 days, 0 = 0 — 3 days), as well as BMI (1 = healthy weight; 0 = not healthy weight)(mean: 2.32; SE: 0.009; range: 0 — 3).
The remaining treatment options are restricted to symptomatic treatment, like careful attention to
sleeping habits and nutrition.16 Although
health behaviour seems the focus of treatment, very little is known about the beliefs that determine
health behaviour in
adolescents with CFS, either as predisposing or as maintaining factors.
SRS Social Responsiveness Scale, YSR Youth Self Report, CBCL Child Behavior Checklist, RRS Ruminative Responsiveness Scale, CSQ - CA Chronic Stress Questionnaire for Children and
Adolescents, CSRQ Chronic
Sleep Reduction Questionnaire, WHO - 5 World
Health Organization - Five Well - Being Index, CAMM Children's Acceptance and Mindfulness
A third important psychosocial factor to consider when examining
sleep in
adolescents with ADHD is psychiatric comorbidity, as co-occurring externalizing and internalizing mental
health problems are highly prevalent among
adolescents with ADHD (Smalley et al. 2007).
In comparison to internalizing mental
health symptoms, fewer studies have examined the role of
sleep in relation to
adolescents» externalizing behavior problems.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health (Add Health) study, Wong and Brower (2012) found sleep problems to longitudinally predict suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, even after controlling for depression, alcohol problems, drug use, and youth characteristics such as age, sex, and chronic health pro
Health (Add
Health) study, Wong and Brower (2012) found sleep problems to longitudinally predict suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, even after controlling for depression, alcohol problems, drug use, and youth characteristics such as age, sex, and chronic health pro
Health) study, Wong and Brower (2012) found
sleep problems to longitudinally predict suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, even after controlling for depression, alcohol problems, drug use, and youth characteristics such as age, sex, and chronic
health pro
health problems.
Further, aside from the recent 1 - year longitudinal studies by Becker et al. (2014) and Lycett et al. (2014a), all of the studies completed to date have been cross-sectional, leaving it unclear if comorbidities predict increases in
sleep problems (and vice versa) over longer developmental periods or whether comorbid mental
health symptoms differentially impact the
sleep of
adolescents with and without ADHD.