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Does sleep education change sleep parameters? Comparing sleep education trials for middle school students in Australia and New Zealand

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ralph MaddisonRalph Maddison, S Blunden, G Kira, M Hull
Abstract: Background: Adolescents suffer daytime consequences from sleep loss. Sleep education programs have been developed in an attempt to increase sleep knowledge and/or duration. This paper presents data from three trials of the Aus-tralian Centre for Education in Sleep (ACES) program for adolescents.
Methods: The ACES program was delivered to 69 Australian adolescents in a pre-post cross-sectional design (mean age 15.2) and 29 New Zealand adolescents in a randomised control trial (mean age 14.8 years). Assessments in sleep parame-ters were undertaken at baseline and post intervention.
Results: Where sleep knowledge was evaluated (Australian trials), significant improvements were shown in all trials (All p <0.05). Where sleep duration was assessed (New Zealand trial) significant improvements were found in week and weekend sleep duration [F(1, 27)=4.26, p=0.04). Both, students and teachers found the program feasible, interesting, and educational.
Conclusions: ACES sleep education programmes can improve both sleep knowledge and sleep duration in adolescents. Improving the programme so sleep knowledge attained equates to actual sleep behaviour change are areas for future direc-tion. Collectively these findings provide encouraging signs that adolescents can improve their sleep knowledge and behav-iour with sleep education which bodes well for sleep-related health and psycho-social issues.

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Journal

Open sleep journal

Volume

5

Pagination

12 - 18

Publisher

Bentham Science

Location

Beijing, China

ISSN

1874-6209

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2012, The Authors

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