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Relationships between hours of sleep and health-risk behaviors in US adolescent students
Lela R. McKnight-Eily,Danice K. Eaton,Richard Lowry,Janet B. Croft,Letitia Presley-Cantrell,Geraldine S. Perry +5 more
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Two-thirds of adolescent students reported insufficient sleep, which was associated with many health-risk behaviors, and greater awareness of the impact of sleep insufficiency is vital.About:
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Sleep Quality Types and Their Influences on Psychological and Physical Health in Chinese Adolescents: A Person-Centered Approach.
Catie C. W. Lai,Cecilia M. S. Ma +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined Chinese adolescents' sleep quality types by using a person-centered approach and examined the associations of adolescent sleep quality type with a person's personality type, and found that poor sleep in adolescents is a global health problem.
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DEEP sleep: The impact of sleep on financial risk taking
John R. Nofsinger,Corey A. Shank +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between sleep and financial risk taking and found that individuals who have better sleep display less distortion of probability, are less susceptible to the present bias, and have a lower discounting rate.
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Sleep promotion program for improving sleep behaviors among adolescents in selected schools: a randomized controlled trial
TL;DR: SPP holds a promise for improving healthy adolescents sleep behaviors, whereas sleep quality, sleep duration, and daytime sleepiness became worse with higher age and grade level.
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Insufficient Sleep and Weight Status in High School Students: Should We Be Focusing on the Extremes?
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relation between length of sleep and weight status by analyzing data from 9,321 high school students on the 2007 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey and found that insufficient sleep was associated with higher odds of being categorized as obese in only the most extreme range (5 hr or less of sleep on an average night).
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Characteristics of sleep habits among adolescents living in the city of Ribeirão Preto (SP)
TL;DR: Almost half the adolescents investigated sleep less than the minimum time considered ideal, and the most of adolescents went to the bed when they felt sleepy, used electronic devices before to sleep, had difficulties to fall asleep, need to be awake in the morning and felt sleepy during the day.
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Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2007.
Danice K. Eaton,Laura Kann,Steve Kinchen,Shari L. Shanklin,James Ross,Joseph Hawkins,William A. Harris,Richard Lowry,Tim McManus,David Chyen,Connie Lim,Nancy D. Brener,Howell Wechsler +12 more
TL;DR: Results from the 2007 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) indicated that many high school students engaged in behaviors that increased their likelihood of death from these four causes: motor-vehicle crashes, other unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide.
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Reliability of the 1999 youth risk behavior survey questionnaire.
Nancy D. Brener,Laura Kann,Tim McManus,Steven A. Kinchen,Elizabeth C. Sundberg,James G. Ross +5 more
TL;DR: Overall, students appeared to report health risk behaviors reliably over time, but several items need to be examined further to determine whether they should be revised or deleted in future versions of the YRBS.
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Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem
Harvey R Colten,Bruce M Altevogt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that 50 to 70 million Americans chronically suffer from a disorder of sleep and wakefulness, hindering daily functioning and adversely affecting health and longevity, and the available human resources and capacity are insufficient to further develop the science and to diagnose and treat individuals with sleep disorders.
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Pathways to adolescent health sleep regulation and behavior.
Ronald E. Dahl,Daniel S. Lewin +1 more
TL;DR: There is need for improved understanding of the acute and chronic effects of inadequate sleep in adolescence, guidelines for defining adequate sleep in adolescents, and a better delineation of the links among sleep, behavior, and affect regulation.
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Regulation of Adolescent Sleep: Implications for Behavior
TL;DR: Data from adolescent participants examining EEG markers of sleep homeostasis are presented to evaluate whether process S shows maturational changes permissive of altered sleep patterns across puberty, and indicate that certain aspects of the homeostatic system are unchanged from late childhood to young adulthood, while other features change in a manner that ispermissive of later bedtimes in older adolescents.