Sleep Deficiency in Adolescents: The School Start Time Debate.

Adolescence is commonly accepted as a challenging time for sleep, with multiple factors contributing to sleep deficiency in adolescents. These include physiologic changes with shifts in their circadian rhythm; medical sleep disorders; and social, cultural, and environmental factors. Early school start times negatively affect sleep in adolescents as well, with poorer outcomes in their overall health, wellbeing, and performance. This article highlights the different contributing factors for sleep deficiency in adolescents and the consequences of sleep deficiency. In addition, the authors discuss the impact of delayed school start times in improving adolescents' sleep and overall function.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Clinics in Chest Medicine

• Publication date

  2022-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.ccm.2022.02.008PMID 35659022
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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