Weekend sleep after early and later school start times confirmed a model-predicted failure to catch up sleep missed on weekdays.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many people believe they sleep for longer time on weekend nights to make up for sleep lost on weekdays. However, results of simulations of risetimes and bedtimes on weekdays and weekends with a sleep-wake regulating model revealed their inability to prolong weekend sleep. In particular, they predicted identical durations of weekend sleep after weeks with relatively earlier and relatively later risetime on weekdays. In the present study, this paradoxical prediction was empirically confirmed.

Methods

Times in bed were calculated from weekday and weekend risetimes and bedtimes in pairs of samples of students with early and later school start time and in subsets of samples from 7 age groups with weekday risetime earlier and later than 7:00 a.m.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Putilov AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164574 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature