Young Adolescent Sleep-Smart Pacesetter Program

青少年睡眠智能标兵计划

基本信息

批准号：
7096672
负责人：
Amy Ruth Wolfson
金额：
$ 22.86万
依托单位：
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
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

项目摘要

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性健康教育被认为是改善儿童和青少年健康并养成终生健康习惯目标的关键一步。尽管人们知道睡眠在有效的白天功能中发挥着至关重要的作用，但一种促进健康的行为——养成一致的睡眠习惯——却很少受到公共卫生和学校官员的关注。过去二十年来，实验室数据表明，初中和高中阶段的青少年对睡眠的需求增加，并在青春期经历阶段性延迟。然而，调查和实地研究表明，青少年的睡眠时间比年幼的孩子少。学校时间表、课外时间和其他环境限制不利于青少年的睡眠时间表和要求。事实上，青少年通过在学校晚上获得最少的睡眠并在周末多睡来弥补这一点，从而形成了睡眠部门。由于这种睡眠问题，青少年可能经常缺课或迟到，在上课时昏昏欲睡、喜怒无常，上课时注意力不集中，无法在学业上发挥最佳水平，并且容易发生事故和受伤。值得注意的是，尽管卫生专业人员普遍认为需要在生命早期培养健康习惯，但很少有学校将睡眠卫生作为其健康教育课程的一部分。该提案的目的是检查以学校为基础的预防性睡眠教育计划对于改善青少年睡眠/觉醒时间表的数量和质量的有效性。该研究的三个具体目标如下：（1）检验睡眠教育计划对青少年健康睡眠习惯的有效性； (2) 研究改善睡眠模式对学业成绩和出勤率的影响； (3) 检查这些关系的潜在调节因素（例如行为、健康）。