For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescents in England and whether this is associated with age, gender, and sleep habits including bedtimes and electronic media use. Students (school y 5-13; typical age 9-18 y) completed the 2021 OxWell Student Survey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sleep problems are common in young people. Yet brief screening measures to identify those most in need of an intervention are lacking. This study investigated the potential of the two-item Sleep Condition Indicator (SCI-02) for screening insomnia symptoms in children and adolescents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: Sleep is essential to young people's wellbeing, yet may be constricted by the adolescent delayed sleep phase coupled with school start times. COVID-19 restrictions caused major disruptions to everyday routines, including partial school closures. We set out to understand changes in students' self-reported sleep quality, and associations with mental wellbeing and interpersonal functioning, during these restrictions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the impact of a school-based sleep education programme on adolescent sleep and sleep knowledge.
Methods: This is the first outcome report on 'Teensleep': a novel, teacher-led programme, comprising ten lessons that can be delivered flexibly. Students in Year 10 ( = 1504; mean age = 14.