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Routine evening naps and night‐time sleep patterns in junior high and high school students
Author(s) -
FUKUDA KAZUHIKO,
ISHIHARA KANEYOSHI
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2002.00986.x
Subject(s) - bedtime , nap , evening , psychology , sleep (system call) , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , physics , astronomy , computer science , operating system
This study investigated the relationship between napping and night‐time sleep patterns in junior high and high school students. A questionnaire concerning sleep‐related lifestyle was given to about 10 000 junior high and high school students. Approximately 50% of the junior high and high school students take at least one nap per week. More than 30% of students take naps later than 17.00 hours. The late naps delayed students’ bedtime; that is, onset of night‐time sleep. The bedtime of students of university‐bound high schools was later than that of students of vocation‐bound high schools. The more frequently students took naps, the later they went to bed. Frequent late naps delayed bedtime and, hence, shortened the length of night‐time sleep.