Spending Less Time In Bed At Night Leads To Academic Problems For Schoolchildren
The children spent one week on their normal school-night sleep schedule and one week on an optimized schedule of at least 10 hours in bed per night. The week of restricted sleep limited their time in bed each night to eight hours for first or second graders and 6.5 hours for children in third grade or above. Teachers completed weekly ratings of classroom behavior and performance for the participants.
"Children identified by teachers as having academic problems should be screened for insufficient sleep, which may be directly influencing the appearance of learning difficulties," the authors write. "In addition, similar sleep screening is also indicated for children with attention or concentration problems, as these problems may increase in severity if patterns of insufficient sleep are sustained."
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