Young Adolescent Sleep-Smart Pacesetter Program

青少年睡眠智能标兵计划

• 批准号: 6983590
• 负责人: Amy Ruth Wolfson
• 金额: $ 31.72万
• 依托单位: COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-20 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6983590
• 关键词: absenteeism; academic achievement; actigraphy; adolescence (12-20); attention; behavior disorders; behavior modification; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; education evaluation /planning; functional ability; habits; health behavior; health education; human subject; longitudinal human study; outcomes research; personal log /diary; questionnaires; sleep; social behavior; wakefulness

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): School-based preventive health education is considered a critical step in the goal to improve children and adolescents' health and to develop lifelong healthy habits. One health enhancing behavior - the development of consistent sleep habits - has received little attention from public health and school officials, despite the knowledge that sleep plays a critical role in effective daytime functioning. Over the past two decades, laboratory data has demonstrated that adolescents across the middle and high school years have an increased need for sleep and experience a phase delay during puberty. Survey and field studies, however, indicate that adolescents obtain less sleep than do younger children. School schedules, extracurricular hours, and other environmental constraints are not beneficial to young adolescents sleep schedules and requirements. In fact, teenagers develop a sleep dept by getting a minimal amount of sleep on school nights and making up for this by sleeping extra on the weekends. As a result of this sleep dept, adolescents may be frequently absent or late for school, sleepy and moody during school hours, inattentive during class time, unable to do their best academically, and prone to accidents and injuries. Remarkably, despite the general agreement among health professionals that health habits need to be taught early in life, few schools include sleep hygiene as part of their health education curricula. The aim of this proposal is to examine the effectiveness of a school-based preventive, sleep education program for improving the quantity and quality of young adolescents' sleep/wake schedules. The three specific aims of the study are as follows: (1) To examine the effectiveness of a sleep education program to teach young adolescents healthy sleep habits; (2) To examine the impact of improved sleep patterns on academic performance and attendance; and (3) To examine potential mediators (e.g., behavior, health) on these relationships.

描述（由申请人提供）：以学校为基础的预防健康教育被认为是改善儿童和青少年健康和培养终身健康习惯目标的关键步骤。一种促进健康的行为——养成一致的睡眠习惯——很少受到公共卫生和学校官员的关注，尽管人们都知道睡眠在白天的有效运作中起着至关重要的作用。在过去的二十年里，实验室数据表明，在初中和高中阶段的青少年对睡眠的需求增加，并且在青春期经历了一个阶段延迟。然而，调查和实地研究表明，青少年的睡眠时间比年幼的儿童要少。学校安排、课外活动时间和其他环境限制不利于青少年的睡眠安排和需求。事实上，青少年在上学的晚上睡得很少，周末睡得更多，从而形成了睡眠深度。由于这种睡眠不足，青少年可能经常旷课或上学迟到，上学时困倦和情绪低落，上课时注意力不集中，学业上不能做到最好，容易发生事故和受伤。值得注意的是，尽管健康专业人士普遍认为，健康习惯需要从小开始教授，但很少有学校将睡眠卫生作为健康教育课程的一部分。这项建议的目的是检查以学校为基础的预防睡眠教育计划的有效性，以提高青少年睡眠/觉醒时间表的数量和质量。本研究的三个具体目的是：(1)检验睡眠教育计划在教育青少年健康睡眠习惯方面的有效性；(2)研究改善睡眠模式对学习成绩和出勤率的影响；(3)检查这些关系的潜在中介（例如，行为、健康）。