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- The study examined how reduced sleep affects attention in children using a 5-minute task on a digital device.
- The 14 female participants, aged around 10.6 years, were tested before and after getting either 5 hours (restricted) or 10 hours (control) of sleep.
- Results showed that sleep restriction led to slower response times and more lapses, indicating that inadequate sleep negatively impacts attention, similar to findings in adults.
Article Abstract
The impact of sleep restriction on sustained attention in children has not been well quantified. To address this shortcoming, this study tested the sensitivity of a 5-min personal digital assistant-psychomotor vigilance task (PDA-PVT) to sleep restriction in 14 female children [mean (SD) age = 10.6 +/- 0.3 years]. The children underwent PDA-PVT trials at regular intervals both before and after a sleep restriction (5 h time-in-bed) and a control (10 h time-in-bed) condition. Sleep restriction was associated with longer mean response times and increased number of lapses. These results are consistent with findings in the adult literature suggesting an association between inadequate sleep and impaired functioning. In conclusion, the 5-min PDA-PVT is sensitive to sleep restriction in pre-adolescent female children supporting the utility of the PDA-PVT for examining the impact of sleep deprivation on daytime functioning in children.
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