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Application of health behaviour theory to sleep health improvement
Author(s) -
Mead Michael P.,
Irish Leah A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of sleep research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2869
pISSN - 0962-1105
DOI - 10.1111/jsr.12950
Subject(s) - sleep hygiene , sleep (system call) , foundation (evidence) , health promotion , psychology , health education , medicine , psychiatry , political science , nursing , public health , computer science , sleep quality , cognition , operating system , law
Although sleep hygiene is often used for broad sleep health promotion efforts, sleep hygiene education programmes are largely ineffective. These programmes are limited by their lack of a theoretical foundation. Health behaviour theory (HBT) has been used for decades to successfully predict and modify many health behaviours, but its use in the study of sleep health is rare. The purpose of this review is threefold. First, four dominant HBTs will be introduced. Second, the brief literature on HBT and sleep health will be reviewed. Lastly, a translational research agenda will be proposed. The present review concludes that HBT shows potential in both the prediction and modification of sleep health, and that there are several short‐ and long‐ term research goals to advance these efforts.