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Studies Assessing Adolescent Sleep Patterns


  • Nahmod N, Lee S, Buxton O, Chang A, Hale L. High school start times after 8:30 AM are associated with later wake times and longer time in bed among teens in a national urban cohort study. Sleep 2019.
  • Gariépy, G., Janssen, I., Sentenac, M., & Elgar, F. J. (2016). School start time and sleep in Canadian adolescents. Journal of Sleep Research. DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12475.
  • Meltzer LJ, Shaheed K, Ambler D. Start Later, Sleep Later: School Start Times and Adolescent Sleep in Homeschool Versus Public/ Private School Students. Behavioral Sleep Medicine 14:140–154, 2016.
  • Wheaton A. Short Sleep Duration Among Middle School and High School Students — United States, 2015. MMWR. January 26, 2018 / 67(3);85–90.
  • Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock. Back to School and Back to Sleep: Sleep Patterns of Teenagers Worldwide. August 27, 2015.
  • Anne G. Wheaton, Gabrielle A. Ferro, and Janet B. Croft. School Start Times for Middle School and High School Students — United States, 2011–12 School Year. MMWR. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. August 6, 2015.
  • Basch CE. Prevalence of sleep duration on an average school night among 4 nationally representative successive samples of American high school students, 2007-2014.  Prev Chron Disease 2014;11:140383. 
  • Keyes KM et al. The great sleep recession: Changes in sleep duration among US adolescents, 1991-2012. Pediatrics 2015 Mar;135(3):460-468. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-2707.
  • Matthew Kirby, Stefania Maggi, and Amedeo D’Angiulli. School Start Times and the Sleep–Wake Cycle of Adolescents: A Review and Critical Evaluation of Available Evidence. Educational Researcher 2011 40(2):56–61.​
  • ​Sleep Cycle/Northcube. The Sleepiest Teens Live in Belgium. (Report on Average Wake Times and Sleep Length Worldwide, based on Sleep Cycle data). November 27, 2014.
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