Project Sleep in Norwegian adolescents
Research has consistently shown that adolescents world-wide do not obtain enough sleep, especially on weekdays. Short sleep amongst adolescents appear to result from a combination of biological dispositions, psychosocial factors and early school start times. Poor and curtailed sleep amongst adolescents is associated with a wide range of negative outcomes in terms of cognition, mental health and health behaviors, and may affect academic performance and school attendance/dropout.
Main content
The aims of project Sleep in Norwegian adolescents are to investigate adolescent sleep patterns and to identify predictors and consequences of poor sleep, as well as to study the effects socio-structural interventions (e.g. school start times) to improve sleep and consequently health, academic performance and school adherence amongst Norwegian high school students.
By addressing adolescent sleep from different angles, using epidemiological methods as well as intervention studies, the project is capable of yielding high-quality papers as well as providing practical solutions for direct management of sleep related problems in adolescents.
Ongoing substudies in this project:
Western-Norway Longitudinal Sleep Study (WALOSS)
School start times in the morning – a randomized-controlled trial