Sleep is a indispensable component of a healthy individual when bodies and brains rest and recharge. If children and teenagers do not get adequate sleep, they can be grouchy and have behavior changes, attention difficulties, and memory problems. Inadequate sleep increases the risk of high blood pressure, obesity, depression, and diabetes. The pandemic has significantly altered normal sleep patterns for children and teenagers. Do you think they need to adjust sleep schedules to be well rested and arise appropriately to start their day?
Mohsen Rajabi Thank you so very much dear for those useful links.
Yes, they need to adjust sleep schedules to be well rested and arise appropriately to start their day. Because sleep is a indispensable component of a healthy individual.
Detail here on how UK sleep cycles may have changed through pandemic. Not specific to adolescents or children but I suspect they are key drivers of change in this data: Article A month of Sundays? What technology can tell us about sleep ...
Within my UK sleep clinic seeing paediatric and young adult patients - lockdown was really interesting - overall requests for stimulants for my narcolepsy teenagers decreased, a pressure off the early school starts, more power naps. However, many post pubertal teens drifted for the first few weeks into sleep onset in the second half of the night. However in the UK where school starts are closer to 9am rather than the 7-7.30 am of the US, most of my patients have reset and restarted the normal school day without too much difficulty.
Melatonin - when in doubt go low, and it needs to come with behavioural change as well. This is a good article and very careful study using just 0.5mg melatonin 1 hour before desired bedtime with benefit.
Article Efficacy of melatonin with behavioural sleep-wake scheduling...
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