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Internal and external time conflicts in adolescents: sleep characteristics and interventions

Insufficient sleep and daytime sleepiness is commonly increasing during preadolescence and adolescence years. It has been suggested that environmental, psychosocial and biological factors might underlie changes in sleep patterns across adolescence. The aim of the present article is to highlight such sleep patterns in adolescents under different social cultural conditions. We are interested in this review to report on data that suggests that many adolescents show a misalignment of circadian rhythms and are not fully adapted to school time schedules. The sleep effects due to normal early school starts, alternative school schedules, or the double burden of work and study are presented. The reported interventions aimed to ease the circadian adaptation process to school scheduling by promoting better sleep, change scheduling and to reduce sleepiness in school. In summary, adolescents around the world shorten their sleep mainly by delaying timing of sleep due to biological and psychosocial reasons.

adolescents; sleep; school schedules; interventions

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