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Youth Screen Media Habits and Sleep
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With the widespread use of portable electronic devices and the normalization of screen media devices in the bedroom, insufficient sleep has become commonplace. In a recent literature review, 90% of included studies found an association between screen media use and delayed bedtime and/or decreased total sleep time. This pervasive phenomenon of pediatric sleep loss has widespread implications. There is a need for basic, translational, and clinical research examining the effects of screen media on sleep loss and health consequences in children and adolescents to educate and motivate clinicians, teachers, parents and youth themselves to foster healthy sleep habits.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hale, L., Kirschen, G. W., LeBourgeois, M. K., Gradisar, M., Garrison, M. M., Montgomery-Downs, H., Kirschen, H., McHale, S. M., Chang, A.-M., & Buxton, O. M.
- Affiliations
- Stony Brook Medicine (US)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Flinders University (AU)
- University of Washington (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hale, Lauren
- ORCID
- Venue
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-04
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 229-245
- ISSN
- 1056-4993 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5839336
- OpenAlex
- W2791006247
- Cited by
- 312
- References
- 109
- Citations by year
- 2026: 51 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 3.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (am, 334 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- The Research Repository @ WVU (West Virginia University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (R01HD073352, R01HD087707, R01HD071937)
- Mobile Sleep Technologies for National Science Foundation (1622766)
- NIH/National Institute on Aging (R43AG056250)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- screen media use, sleep, bedtime procrastination, sleep duration, adolescents, youth, electronic devices, sleep habits
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Child, Child Behavior, Communications Media, Habits, Humans, Sleep, Sleep Wake Disorders, Parenting, Video Games, Internet
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