School Start Time and Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Results From the US National Comorbidity Survey—Adolescent Supplement

May 15, 2015American journal of public health

How School Start Times Are Linked to Teen Sleep Patterns in the U.S.

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Among 7308 students, school start time was positively associated with weeknight bedtime.

Adolescents with earlier school start times tended to go to bed later.
The relationship between school start time and weeknight sleep duration was strongest for start times of 8:00 am and earlier.
Boys in major metropolitan areas showed the strongest associations between school start time and sleep duration.
In nonurban counties, later school start times were linked to shorter sleep duration among boys.
No significant association was found between school start time and weekend compensatory sleep.

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OBJECTIVES: We estimated associations between school start time and adolescent weeknight bedtime, weeknight sleep duration, and weekend compensatory sleep and assessed whether associations differ by age, sex, or urbanicity.

METHODS: We used a subsample of a nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of 7308 students aged 13 to 18 years attending 245 schools to estimate associations of school start time, reported by school principals, with weeknight bedtime and sleep duration and weekend compensatory sleep, reported during adolescent face-to-face interviews.

RESULTS: Start time was positively associated with weeknight bedtime. Associations between start time and weeknight sleep duration were nonlinear and were strongest for start times of 8:00 am and earlier. Associations differed by sex and urbanicity, with the strongest association among boys in major metropolitan counties. Start time was negatively associated with sleep duration among boys in nonurban counties. Start time was not associated with weekend compensatory sleep.

CONCLUSIONS: Positive overall associations between school start time and adolescent sleep duration at the national level support recent policy recommendations for delaying school start times. However, the impact of start time delays may differ by sex and urbanicity.

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