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Total Sleep Time Severely Drops during Adolescence

Damien Léger, François Beck, Jean‐Baptiste Richard, Emmanuelle Godeau

PLoS ONE · 2012

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Summary

UNLABELLED: Restricted sleep duration among young adults and adolescents has been shown to increase the risk of morbidities such as obesity, diabetes or accidents. However there are few epidemiological studies on normal total sleep time (TST) in representative groups of teen-agers which allow to get normative data. PURPOSE: To explore perceived total sleep time on schooldays (TSTS) and non schooldays (TSTN) and the prevalence of sleep initiating insomnia among a nationally representative sample of teenagers. METHODS: Data from 9,251 children aged 11 to 15 years-old, 50.7% of which were boys, as part of the cross-national study 2011 HBSC were analyzed. Self-completion questionnaires were administered in classrooms. An estimate of TSTS and TSTN (week-ends and vacations) was calculated based

Subject
Dietary patterns & chronic disease
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0045204
Catalogue ID
SNmojj2160-06jcpb
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