Sleep Hygiene Intervention Improves Sleep Time and Duration in High School Students.

 To evaluate the effects of a sleep hygiene education program for adolescents to address excessive daytime sleepiness, insomnia, and sleep-related behaviors.  The participants were 98 high school students from the 11th and 12th grades. A day-long health promotion action was conducted at their school science fair to disseminate relevant information about sleep disorders.

Sleep habits and orofacial myofunctional self-assessment of children at risk for sleep breathing disorders.

Purpose: To identify orofacial myofunctional complaints and sleep-disordered breathing and correlate them with sleep habits in childhood.

Methods: The study included 71 parents/guardians of public school children aged 6 to 11 years. They answered a form with semi-structured medical history questions and the Nordic Orofacial Test-Screening - interview, the Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening Tool Questionnaire, and the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire - all of them in their Portuguese/Brazilian versions in an online format.