Youth Screen Media Habits and Sleep: Sleep-Friendly Screen Behavior Recommendations for Clinicians, Educators, and Parents

Lauren Hale; Gregory W Kirschen; Monique K LeBourgeois; Michael Gradisar; Michelle M Garrison; Hawley Montgomery-Downs; Howard Kirschen; Susan M McHale; Anne-Marie Chang; Orfeu M Buxton

doi:10.1016/j.chc.2017.11.014

Youth Screen Media Habits and Sleep: Sleep-Friendly Screen Behavior Recommendations for Clinicians, Educators, and Parents

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2018 Apr;27(2):229-245. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2017.11.014.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Program in Public Health, Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook Medicine, HSC Level 3, Room 071, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8338, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Medical Scientist Training Program, Stony Brook Medicine, HSC Level 3, Room 071, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8338, USA.
³ Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0354, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia.
⁵ Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, 4333 Brooklyn Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98195-9455, USA; Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, PO Box 6040, 53 Campus Drive, 1124 LSB, Morgantown, WV 26506-6040, USA.
⁷ Child, Adolescent, Adult Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Private Practice, 366 N Broadway Street 210, Jericho, NY 11753, USA.
⁸ Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 114 Henderson, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
⁹ Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA; College of Nursing, The Pennsylvania State University, Nursing Sciences Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Sleep Health Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Screen behavior recommendations; Screen media habits; Sleep; Youth.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior*
Child
Child Behavior*
Communications Media*
Habits*
Humans
Internet*
Parenting*
Sleep / physiology*
Sleep Wake Disorders / etiology*
Sleep Wake Disorders / prevention & control*
Video Games / adverse effects*

Abstract

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