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High school start times after 8:30 am are associated with later wake times and longer time in bed among teens in a national urban cohort study

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 3; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.sleh.2017.09.004

2352-7226

Nicole G. Nahmod, Soomi Lee, Orfeu M. Buxton, Anne‐Marie Chang, Lauren Hale,

Youth Substance Use and School Attendance

High school start times are a key contributor to insufficient sleep. This study investigated associations of high school start times with bedtime, wake time, and time in bed among urban teenagers. Daily-diary study nested within the prospective Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Twenty US cities. Four hundred thirteen teenagers who completed ≥1 daily diary report on a school day. Participating teens were asked to complete daily diaries for 7 consecutive days. School-day daily diaries (3.8 ± 1.6 entries per person) were used in analyses (N = 1555 school days). High school start time, the main predictor, was categorized as 7:00-7:29 am (15%), 7:30-7:59 am (22%), 8:00-8:29 am (35%), and 8:30 am or later (28%). Multilevel modeling examined the associations of school start times with bedtime, wake time, and time in bed. Models adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, household income, caregiver's education, and school type. Teens with the earliest high school start times (7:00-7:29 am) obtained 46 minutes less time in bed on average compared with teens with high school start times at 8:30 am or later (P < .001). Teens exhibited a dose-response relationship between earlier school start times and shorter time in bed, primarily due to earlier wake times (P < .05). Start times after 8:30 am were associated with increased time in bed, extending morning sleep by 27-57 minutes (P < .05) when compared with teens with earlier school start times. Later school start times are associated with later wake times in our large, diverse sample. Teens starting school at 8:30 am or later are the only group with an average time in bed permitting 8 hours of sleep, the minimum recommended by expert consensus for health and well-being.