1. Baum, K. T., Desai, A., Field, J., Miller,
L. E., Rausch, J., & Beebe, D. W. (2014). Sleep restriction worsens mood
and emotion regulation in adolescents. Journal Of Child Psychology &
Psychiatry, 55(2), 180-190. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12125
2. Research
3. The study wanted to find out the correlation
between sleep and a child’s mood. This research worked best for them because
they need to conduct a study and find out information. They took fifty students
that were healthy and aged 14-17. The study was only done for three weeks. The
first week was the control because they had the students do their own sleep
patterns. The second week they made the students spend at least six and a half
hours in bed. And the third week they had them in bed for ten hours. The study
was randomized, also. When the participants woke up each day, they had to fill
out a survey telling their moods.
4. The results showed that they students who slept
for 6.5 hours were actually more angry, tired, confused, and moody.
5. Only a few less hours really has a great impact
on our moods. This study was done in less than a month and it still was able to
show these drastic changes.
1. Moseley, L., & Gradisar, M. (2009).
Evaluation of a School-Based Intervention for Adolescent Sleep Problems. Sleep,
32(3), 334–341.
2. Randomized control trial
3. They created a program to see if school
intervention helped students get more sleep. They used two groups. One was the
program class they made up and the other was standard class. They used 81 students whose average age was 15. One class of 41 participated in the study
while the other 40 did their normal routines. They did this over a period of
one month and measured sleep patterns before, during, and 6 weeks after the
study. They used this method in order to gather data on whether or not the
better (sleep) educated test group would improve their sleeping habits or not.
4. The researchers found that their intervention
was highly successful and greatly beneficial. They stated that all the other
schools should try to implement some sort of program that taught adolescents the benefits of practicing better sleep habits.
5. The interesting thing was that these researchers
didn’t do that much, in reality. They simply taught children the benefits of
getting a higher quality/quantity of sleep and it worked. This is such a huge
issue among this age group, yet the solutions are usually so simple.
1. Loessl, B., Valerius, G., Kopasz, M.,
Hornyak, M., Riemann, D., & Voderholzer, U. (2008). Are adolescents chronically
sleep-deprived? An investigation of sleep habits of adolescents in the
Southwest of Germany. Child: Care, Health & Development, 34(5), 549-556.
2. Case control
3. The study was done in Germany with 818 students,
ages 12 through 18. They did a case control because they needed to compare
different groups of data and analyze it based off of an independent variable.
These students were taken from three different schools. They had to fill out
surveys and log for two weeks their sleep based on the directions they were
given. The goal here was to get data showing how the place a person live
effects their sleep cycle. 601 students completed the entire survey for two
weeks. The average amount of sleep the participants got was about eight hours
during the week and about nine on the weekends. For the 12-13 year old
category, they only received 7 hours of sleep on weekdays during the school
year. The researchers found that “91.6% of all students slept less than 9.2 h
per night during the week,” (Loessl, 1).
4. Their hypothesis of students getting less sleep
during the week was proven true. Fridays and Saturdays had the latest bedtimes
and the least amount of sleep of received in the middle of the week. They did
not find any major correlation between where a student lived and the amount of
sleep they got.
5. What was interesting (even to the researchers)
was that even though the students got less than the recommended eight hours of
sleep most nights of the week, only a handful of them reported being drowsy and
incapable of functioning the next day. I personally feel this is because
students are just so used to getting so little sleep now that we could function
off on only four hours, which is terrible.
1. Al-Hazzaa, H. M., Musaiger, A. O.,
Abahussain, N. A., Al-Sobayel, H. I., & Qahwaji, D. M. (2012). Prevalence
of short sleep duration and its association with obesity among adolescents 15-
to 19-year olds: A cross-sectional study from three major cities in Saudi
Arabia. Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 7(3), 133–139.
http://doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.98845
2. Cross Sectional
3. Even though it’s based in Saudi Arabia, it’s
interesting to see if sleep deprivation is as big of a problem in other
countries as it is in America. Also it focuses on sleep’s correlation with
obesity, but I still thought it was a good study to be considered. That’s what
makes it cross sectional. It is different in the sense that it’s not an
American study or exactly what I need, but it still relates to my topic and can
give me good information. I like it already because the beginning of the
article starts off with how they think getting enough sleep each night is
actually really important. These researchers also used questionnaires that that
students had to keep track of and turn in. It took place in three different
cities with 2868 students between the ages of 15 and 19 who were randomly
selected. They took many measurements including their weight, height, BMI, and
sleep duration. The average amount of sleep they got was around 7 hours. The study
showed that the students who received normal amount of sleep (about 8-9 hours)
had a better chance at being the weight they are supposed to be for their
height and age and less chance of obesity.
4. This study showed that there was a correlation
between the amount of sleep students had and the risk of being obese or
overweight. Those who got less sleep had a higher chance of being overweight.
5. I didn’t find anything too shocking in this
study. It’s not really a surprise that the less sleep we get leads to being
less healthy or having a lower quality of life.
1. Olds, T., Blunden, S., Petkov, J., &
Forchino, F. (2010). The relationships between sex, age, geography and time in
bed in adolescents: A meta-analysis of data from 23 countries. Sleep Medicine
Reviews, 14(6), 371-378. doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2009.12.002
2. Mixed Methods
3. This method was used for this study because it
used a variety of categories to get data for one specific topic. They used
gender, age, country of residence, and sleep time in participants ages 9-18.
Only thirty studies were done and twenty countries were used. The study showed
that there was a difference between age, gender, and the country the subject
lived in. Typically girls slept 11 minutes longer than boys during the week, and
almost 30 minutes longer on the weekend. The older the subject got, the less
sleep they got. According to the study, the country effected sleep in the sense
that Asian students had 40-60 minutes less sleep than Americans and 60-120
minutes less than Europeans.
4. In conclusion, the study proved that there is a
correlation between age, gender, country of origin and the amount of sleep the
student received.
5. I thought the fact that Asians had nearly an
hour less of sleep each night was pretty amazing. That’s seem like a huge gap
between these countries. Other than that, the correlation between age (the
older kids get, the less sleep they have) seems pretty on point, especially
based on my own experience.
