Night-time Sleep Duration and Later Sleep Timing from Infancy to Adolescence

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.33251
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Isabel Morales-Muñoz discusses her JCPP paper ‘Shorter night-time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14004).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• Definition of poor sleep health and what the hallmarks are of poor sleep health.
• The typical trajectory for sleep duration and sleep timing from 6 months to 16 years of age.
• Persistent shorter sleep and the impact of later chronotype on adverse outcomes.
• The association between family adversity, as well as lower maternal socioeconomic status during pregnancy, and poor sleep health from infancy to adolescence.
• Implications for clinicians and CAMH professionals in terms of how patients are screened as well as in terms of treatments and interventions.
• Recommendations for policymakers.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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