title: Prevalence of sleep duration on an average school night among 4 nationally representative successive samples of American high school students, 2007-2013.
abstract: Consistency, quality, and duration of sleep are important determinants of health. We describe sleep patterns among demographically defined subgroups from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System reported in 4 successive biennial representative samples of American high school students (2007 to 2013). Across the 4 waves of data collection, 6.2% to 7.7% of females and 8.0% to 9.4% of males reported obtaining 9 or more hours of sleep. Insufficient duration of sleep is pervasive among American high school students. Despite substantive public health implications, intervention research on this topic has received little attention.
authors.affiliation: Richard March Hoe Professor of Health and Education, Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Box 114, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Telephone: 212-678-3983. E-mail: ceb35@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Basch
authors.affiliation: William Paterson University, Wayne.
authors.forename: Corey H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Basch
authors.affiliation: New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Kelly V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Ruggles
authors.affiliation: Columbia University, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Sonali
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D040343:Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology