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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Sleep duration"”.
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Examining the Influence of Environmental Opportunities and Exposures on Children's Sleep Duration
… and natural environments may impact children’s sleep duration. Data was collected on a sample of 614 children (aged 9-14 years) drawn from 22 elementary schools throughout the City of London, Ontario, Canada. Participants completed the STEAM (Spatial Temporal Environmental Activity Monitoring) …
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Shiftwork, sleep disturbance and the metabolic syndrome among female hospital workers
… Shiftwork is associated with increased sleep disturbance and cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk. This thesis will focus on shiftwork-related sleep disturbance and the potential mediating role of reduced sleep duration in the relationship between a current rotational shiftwork …
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The Demand for Sleep in the United States: An Empirical Analysis
This paper examines empirically the demand for sleep, with special attention given to its price, or more specifically its opportunity cost represented by wages. This is done using continuously gathered data from the American Time Use Survey. To gauge the causal direction of the relationship, …
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Better sleep for teens in Reykjavík : effects of delaying school start on adolescent sleep
The recommended sleep duration for adolescence aged 14 - 17 years old is 8 - 10 hours each night. Studies have shown that Icelandic teens do not meet that recommendation. Multiple studies have shown that delaying school start times may increase sleep duration and well-being for adolescent students. …
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Parent-Child Relations, Sleep, and Externalizing Problems in Clinical Youth
<p>Sleep problems are a major prevailing concern in clinical youth populations. Research has shown that poor sleep is correlated with mental health problems, while parent-child relationships are associated with externalizing behaviors. The aim of this study was to (1) replicate these findings; (2) …
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Sleep characteristics and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in corporate executives
Hours spent in work and sleep comprise the majority of time in a typical day of working adults. As a result, the workplace is a key setting for public health action. Among working adults, 71% of deaths globally are related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), most of which are attributed to …
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Aerobic Exercise Training and Nasal CPAP Therapy: Adaptations in Cardiovascular Function in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious disorder that affects up to 24% of middle-aged males. The substantial cost and inconvenience associated with polysomnography limits the number of people who seek treatment. Therefore, information concerning exercise tolerance and hemodynamic function in …
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Sleep and athletic performance of Formula 1 race car drivers during the 2019 season
<p>Sufficient, good quality sleep is associated with better performance in many sports; however, this relationship has not been examined among motorsport athletes. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between sleep quality (SQ), sleep duration (SD), and performance metrics …
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Exploring the Short-Sleep Obesity Association in Young Children
… consistent epidemiological evidence that short sleep duration is associated with increased risk of obesity from early childhood. Childhood obesity and inadequate sleep have negative consequences for health and well-being, and the ability to target both of these public health concerns with a …
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Investigating impacts of sleep on recovery and performance in elite rugby union
Sleep plays a vital role in daily functioning of biological, cognitive, and physical performance for humans. Additionally, sleep has been widely regarded by athletes to play an important role in recovery from training and competition. Despite the increasing amount of sleep research in athlete …
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Subjective sleep quality in the elderly: relationship to anxiety, depressed mood, sleep beliefs, quality of life, and hypnotic use
… differences between self-categorised good sleepers and poor sleepers on a range of variables, and the factors associated with the use of hypnotic medication amongst the elderly. Participants in the current study were aged 60 to 98 years old. A total of 74 (28 males, 46 females) older adult …
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Sleep and exposure therapy in adults with social anxiety disorder
… or no benefit from exposure-based therapy. Sleep is one potential mechanism that contributes to therapeutic learning deficits. Poor sleep has been found to impair learning and memory processes and may compromise extinction learning that is thought to take place with exposure. Furthermore, …
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Sleep, Fatigue and Caregiver Burden in Parents of Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
… and receiving steroid therapy experience altered sleep patterns, fatigue, irritability, and other behavioral changes. As a consequence, parents may experience altered sleep, fatigue, and increased caregiver burden. If so, the differences seen in parental sleep efficiency and sleep duration may be …
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Effects of Screen Light Filtering Software on Sleep and Morning Alertness
… and televisions that emit blue light before sleep, can negatively impact sleep quality. This research has led to the creation of computer software which lowers the levels of blue light in the evening to help with sleep. This study looked at the impact of wavelength filtering software on sleep …
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An Investigation into Resilience and its Relationship with Sleep and Neighborhood Social Cohesion among Older Pacific Islanders in Southern California
… three main areas of study are: first, the impact sleep has on the relationship between resilience and self-reported health (SRH); second, an exploration of the ethno-cultural PI narrative of resilience and adaptation to adverse events among higher and lower resilient older adults; and third, an …
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Intraindividual variability in sleep is related to sleep quality and psychosocial and academic outcomes.
Sleep is important for physical, mental, and cognitive health. Though existing literature has consistently shown that short sleep duration is detrimental to health and functions, relatively little has been learned about another sleep health dimension ── intraindividual variability (IIV) in sleep …
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Comparisons Among Parent Reports and Self-Reports of Sleep in ADHD and Normal School-Aged Children
… Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) experience greater sleep disturbance than do normally-developing children. Participants included 33 parents and their children with ADHD (mean age = 10.7 ± 1.7 years) and 33 parents and their children without ADHD (mean age = 10.7 ± 1.6 years). Both parents and their …
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Sleep and Cardiometabolic Health in Adults: Contributions of Lifestyle and Dietary Factors, Objective vs. Subjective Sleep, and Change in Sleep Habits
Sleep is necessary for cardiometabolic health, but compared to the 1980s, greater proportions of adults in developed countries are sleep deprived. The primary objectives of this dissertation were three-fold: i) to estimate the contributions of inflammation, oxidative stress, antioxidants, and …
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Evaluation of a Telehealth Parent Training Program for Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Sleep Difficulties
… spectrum disorder (ASD) experience some form of sleep difficulty (e.g., delayed sleep onset, unwanted co-sleeping, prolonged or frequent night wakings). Although research supports parent-implemented behaviour-analytic sleep interventions to address sleep difficulties in children with ASD (e.g., …
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