Effect of sleep extension on sluggish cognitive tempo symptoms and driving behavior in adolescents with chronic short sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Objective/background

Few adolescents report obtaining adequate amounts of sleep. Correlational studies have linked adolescent short sleep with driving crashes and sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), a cluster of symptoms that include sluggishness and low persistence that are related to but distinct from inattention and sleepiness. The relationship between SCT and driving is understudied, and no study has experimentally examined the relationship between SCT and sleep. We examined the relationship between SCT and driving problems in a sample of chronically short-sleeping adolescents. We also examined whether experimentally extending sleep improved SCT and driving behaviors.

Participants/methods

Licensed 16- to 18-year-old adolescents who regularly obtained five to seven hours of s

SUBMITTER: Garner AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050579 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature