Electronic media have often been considered to have a negative impact on the sleep of children and adolescents, but there are no comprehensive reviews of research in this area. The present study… (More)
Adolescent sleep health is becoming increasingly recognized internationally as a significant concern, with many countries reporting high incidences of sleep disturbance in our youth. Notwithstanding… (More)
STUDY OBJECTIVES
The present study investigated the effectiveness of a school-based intervention in increasing sleep knowledge and improving adolescent sleep problems.
DESIGN
A randomized,… (More)
The purpose of this review was to quantify the strength of evidence for a directional relationship between sleep disturbance and depression in adolescents. A literature search was conducted to… (More)
Pathological video-gaming, or its proposed DSM-V classification of "Internet Use Disorder", is of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners in allied health disciplines. This systematic… (More)
This paper reviews 15 adolescent (10-19 yrs) studies that have directly investigated the effects of shortened sleep duration on overweight and obesity. The research studies included in this review… (More)
STUDY OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the psychometric properties and clinical significance of a new scale for measuring daytime fatigue associated with insomnia: The Flinders Fatigue Scale (FFS).
METHODS… (More)
STUDY OBJECTIVES
To establish the extent to which the developmental changes in sleep timing experienced by Australian adolescents meet the International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-2)… (More)
Although there is ongoing debate concerning the clinical status of Internet addiction, and the quality of the extant literature in this emerging field is not optimal, several clinical trials of both… (More)