2. Children and adolescents require a
9 hour sleep night at least
3. Some people are completely unable
to set good sleeping habits
4. According to the American
Academy of Pediatrics, TV had
been the most powerful influence in
the lives of most children in 1999. It
was found that children spent just
as much time watching TV as they
did sleeping per week.
5. Children’s television-viewing habits
have been reported to be
associated with a variety of
significant behavioral
consequences
6. Sleep quality Sleep duration
v
s
The number of hours
A few interruptions
from bedtime until the
Early onsets
person wakes up in the
Early awakenings
morning.
7. The Faculty of Social and Behavioral
Sciences in Amsterdam did an analysis
to19 students that indicates that cognitive
performance is affected more by sleep
deprivation than mechanical
performance and that mood is much
more affected than cognitive or motor
performance.
8. More recently studies from the BMC
Pediatrics (Evan Tan et. Al, 2012)
show that 70% of students (aged 14
-18 years) had less than eight and
a half hours sleep per night with an
average over 200 surveyed
students of seven and a half hours
per night.
9. This patterns of inadequate sleep
habits is due to different factors
10. We should take great care on this
matter as not many people realize
that their academic and working
success can depend on the quality
of their sleep and their sleep
duration.
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