Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype

Late chronotypes and early school start times are associated with unhealthy sleep habits during adolescence. Here we examine the impact of the relationship between school timing and chronotype on sleep quality in 349 Argentinian high-school students (age: 17-18 y.o., 49% females) randomly assigned t...

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Main Authors: Guadalupe Rodríguez Ferrante, Andrea Paula Goldin, María Juliana Leone
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Sleep Epidemiology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667343624000180
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description Late chronotypes and early school start times are associated with unhealthy sleep habits during adolescence. Here we examine the impact of the relationship between school timing and chronotype on sleep quality in 349 Argentinian high-school students (age: 17-18 y.o., 49% females) randomly assigned to attend school in the morning, afternoon or evening. Students completed the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire and ranked their sleep quality using a Likert-like scale. We found higher sleep quality on free days than on weekdays. Importantly, morning-attending students showed lower sleep quality on weekdays. Finally, the interaction between school timing and chronotype was associated with sleep quality on weekdays: later chronotypes were associated with poorer sleep quality in morning- and afternoon-attending students, but not in the evening. Altogether, our results suggest that attending school in the morning is associated with shorter sleep duration and higher social jetlag, but also with lower sleep quality during adolescence.
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spelling doaj-art-4a84e1c6887b4ecab8a3103586fa423a2024-12-12T05:24:06ZengElsevierSleep Epidemiology2667-34362024-12-014100092Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotypeGuadalupe Rodríguez Ferrante0Andrea Paula Goldin1María Juliana Leone2Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Laboratorio de Cronobiología, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Bernal, Buenos Aires B1876BXD, Argentina; Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, CONICET, Laboratorio de Neurociencia, C1428BIJ Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Biology, University of Washington, Life Science Building, 2nd Floor W, 3747 West Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, United States; Corresponding author.Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, CONICET, Laboratorio de Neurociencia, C1428BIJ Buenos Aires, ArgentinaUniversidad Nacional de Quilmes, CONICET, Laboratorio de Cronobiología, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Bernal, Buenos Aires B1876BXD, Argentina; Área de Educación, Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, C1428BIJ Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLate chronotypes and early school start times are associated with unhealthy sleep habits during adolescence. Here we examine the impact of the relationship between school timing and chronotype on sleep quality in 349 Argentinian high-school students (age: 17-18 y.o., 49% females) randomly assigned to attend school in the morning, afternoon or evening. Students completed the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire and ranked their sleep quality using a Likert-like scale. We found higher sleep quality on free days than on weekdays. Importantly, morning-attending students showed lower sleep quality on weekdays. Finally, the interaction between school timing and chronotype was associated with sleep quality on weekdays: later chronotypes were associated with poorer sleep quality in morning- and afternoon-attending students, but not in the evening. Altogether, our results suggest that attending school in the morning is associated with shorter sleep duration and higher social jetlag, but also with lower sleep quality during adolescence.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667343624000180School start timeChronotypeSleep qualityAdolescents
spellingShingle Guadalupe Rodríguez Ferrante
Andrea Paula Goldin
María Juliana Leone
Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype
Sleep Epidemiology
School start time
Chronotype
Sleep quality
Adolescents
title Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype
title_full Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype
title_fullStr Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype
title_full_unstemmed Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype
title_short Adolescents’ sleep quality is associated with day of the week, school timing and chronotype
title_sort adolescents sleep quality is associated with day of the week school timing and chronotype
topic School start time
Chronotype
Sleep quality
Adolescents
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667343624000180
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