title: Brief Behavioral Sleep Intervention for Adolescents: An Effectiveness Study.
abstract: Sleep disturbances are common among adolescents, but there are no brief interventions to treat them. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief semistructured, individually delivered sleep intervention to ameliorate adolescents' sleeping difficulties and lengthen sleep duration. All students aged 16-18 years in a high school were screened for sleeping difficulties and 36 students with the highest sleep problem scores were invited to the intervention. Postintervention improvements were observed on self-reported and actiwatch-registered sleep duration, self-reported sleep quality and sleep latency, perceived stress and anxiety (all p values < 0.001). However, objectively measured sleep efficiency and sleep latency did not change (p > 0.05). A brief individual sleep intervention can be effective in lengthening sleep duration and improving subjective sleep quality and well-being among adolescents.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health National Institute for Health and Welfare , Helsinki , Finland.|b Child Psychiatry University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital , Finland.
authors.forename: E Juulia
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Paavonen
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health National Institute for Health and Welfare , Helsinki , Finland.|c Department of Health and Social Welfare , City of Vantaa , Finland.
authors.forename: Taina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Huurre
authors.affiliation: d Department of Education City of Vantaa , Finland.
authors.forename: Maija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tilli
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health National Institute for Health and Welfare , Helsinki , Finland.
authors.forename: Olli
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kiviruusu
authors.affiliation: a Department of Health National Institute for Health and Welfare , Helsinki , Finland.
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Partonen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012574:Schools; D057566:Self Report; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013997:Time Factors