A new Swedish study shows that adolescents who suffer from sleep
disturbance or habitual short sleep duration are less likely to succeed
academically compared to those who enjoy a good night's sleep. The results have
recently been published in the journal Sleep Medicine.
In a new study involving more than 20,000 adolescents aged between 12
and 19 from Uppsala County, researchers from Uppsala University demonstrate
that reports of sleep disturbance and habitual short sleep duration (less than
7 hours per day) increased the risk of failure in school.
The study was led by researcher Christian Benedict and doctoral
student Olga Titova at the Department of Neuroscience. The results suggest that
sleep may play an important role for adolescents' performance at school.
"Another
important finding of our study is that around 30 percent of the adolescents
reported regular sleep problems. Similar observations have been made in other
adolescent cohorts, indicating that sleep problems among adolescents have
reached an epidemic level in our modern societies", says Christian
Benedict.
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