title: Impact of inadequate sleep on unintentional injuries in adolescents.
abstract: Excessive daytime sleepiness is a growing societal problem in adolescents. Empirical evidence demonstrates that adolescents experience significant sleepiness as a result of inadequate or disrupted sleep. Although the functional impairment caused by sleepiness in the pediatric population is less studied, children and adolescents do experience changes in behavior and a decline in performance as seen in the adult population. The end result is functional impairment in adolescents, which then places them at higher risk for unintentional injury.
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky Pediatric Sleep Program, Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky Healthcare Sleep Disorders Center, 310 South Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40508, USA. don.hayes@uky.edu
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hayes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003071:Cognition; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006970:Disorders of Excessive Somnolence / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D009290:Narcolepsy / Q000503:physiopathology; D020189:Nocturnal Myoclonus Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D016487:Parenting; D012148:Restless Legs Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D020919:Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology