Preventing sleep deficit in adolescents: Long-term effects of a quasi-experimental school-based intervention study.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents are at risk of sleep deficit, which has serious consequences for their daytime functioning. However, school-based interventions to improve sleep have shown limited success. This might be due to the content of the programmes (e.g., not targeting central factors such as daytime stress and technology use) or because changes have not been captured due to a lack of long-term follow-ups. Hence, the aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term effects of a school-based sleep education curriculum including time-management training. The study used a quasi-experimental design. Participants were 3,622 adolescents (mean age 13.7, 48% girls); 286 were in the intervention group and 3,336 were followed as a natural control group. Data were collected before the intervention and at a 1-year

SUBMITTER: Bauducco SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003508 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature