2016年7月
Public health activities for ensuring adequate sleep among school-age children: current status and future directions
SLEEP AND BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS
- 巻
- 14
- 号
- 3
- 開始ページ
- 241
- 終了ページ
- 247
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1007/s41105-016-0051-0
- 出版者・発行元
- SPRINGER LONDON LTD
This paper reviews epidemiological findings on sleep problems among school-age children and discusses the current status and future directions of public health activities for ensuring adequate sleep. The main sleep problems for school-age children are delayed bedtimes caused by a change in the surrounding environment and resultant consequences related to sleep loss and irregular sleep-wake schedules. Health education activities and interventions aiming at improving certain environmental factors and behavioral changes have been conducted. However, some problems exist among current public health programs for ensuring adequate sleep. First, perspectives regarding physiological changes, accompanied by secondary sexual development, are lacking. Second, most existing public health activities for ensuring adequate sleep aim to disseminate knowledge and cannot achieve behavioral change. Finally, intervention perspectives within the parental and home environment are deficient. Considering such problems, the present review examines future directions for epidemiological studies on sleep problems among school-age children, with a specific emphasis on improving the effectiveness and efficacy of public health activities for ensuring adequate sleep.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1007/s41105-016-0051-0
- ISSN : 1446-9235
- eISSN : 1479-8425
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000384979900004