Is your child not getting ample sleep due to early school hours? Beware, your kid is more likely to develop depression and anxiety, warns a new study.
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Study:
- The study reveals that children, who start schooling before 8:30 a.m.
- In addition,get insufficient sleep or barely meet the minimum amount of sleep.
- That is 8-10 hours needed for healthy functioning of the body.
- Even when a student is doing everything else right to get a good night’s sleep.
- In addition,early school start times put more pressure on the sleep process and increase mental health symptoms.
- While later school start times appear to be a strong protective factor for teenager.
- School timings not only affect the sleeping habits but also the daily functioning of the body.
- It aggravates major health problems like obesity, heart disease and others in adulthood.
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What study suggests?
- The study suggested that maintaining a consistent bedtime, getting between eight and 10 hours of sleep.
- In addition,limiting caffeine, turning off the television, cell phone and video games before bed may boost sleep quality as well as mental health.
- The researchers used an online tool to collect data from 197 students across the country between the ages of 14 and 17.
- The results showed that good sleep hygiene was directly associated with lower average daily depressive or anxiety symptoms across all students.
- The risk of depression was even lower in the students who started school after 8:30 a.m. in comparison to those who started early.
- “One possible explanation for the difference may be that earlier starting students have more pressure on them to get high quality sleep,”Experts stressed.