Changing school start times: Impact on extracurricular activities and employment.

ABSTRACT: Sufficient sleep duration is associated with student health and wellbeing, but early secondary school start times limit students' sleep opportunity. Despite recommendations that all middle and high schools adopt a healthy school start time policy, one barrier to policy implementation is concerns about the impact on student participation in activities and employment. This study examined student extracurricular activity participation and employment before and after the implementation of healthy secondary school start times. Approximately 24,000 students/year (grades 3-11) completed three annual surveys (pre-change, post-change, follow-up) measuring sleep-wake patterns, extracurricular activity participation, and employment. Following the implementation of an earlier school start time, before

SUBMITTER: Meltzer LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12713866 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature