School-based sleep health education in Canada.
Canada
Education
School
School-Based
Sleep Health
Journal
Sleep medicine
ISSN: 1878-5506
Titre abrégé: Sleep Med
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 100898759
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2019
04 2019
Historique:
received:
07
08
2018
revised:
17
01
2019
accepted:
23
01
2019
pubmed:
7
3
2019
medline:
10
5
2020
entrez:
7
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Canadian Ministries of Health and Education across all provinces aim to support and maximize the mental and physical health of students to ensure their ability to fulfill their academic potential. Chronic sleep loss affects all of these domains. However, tools to optimize youth sleep are generally lacking. This manuscript explains the rationale for the integration of sleep health education into schools, describes the barriers to sleep health education, outlines efforts made to address them in Canada, and discusses future directions for sleep health education in Canada. There is unequivocal evidence that sleep plays critical roles in achieving the key goals to which Canadian schools are committed. Sleep restriction and poor sleep habits resulting from hectic, demanding, unbalanced lifestyles; pressure for academic success; participation in extracurricular activities; and the low priority given to sleep over competing activities are prevalent in Canadian youth of all ages and may significantly impair their learning, well-being, and health. Attempts to integrate sleep health education into school curricula meet with multiple barriers. Some of these barriers can be overcome by using community-based participation to develop and implement school-based sleep health education programs. Successful school-based sleep health promotion programs hold the promise of having a long-lasting positive impact on students' physical and mental health, academic performance and daytime functioning.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE
Canadian Ministries of Health and Education across all provinces aim to support and maximize the mental and physical health of students to ensure their ability to fulfill their academic potential. Chronic sleep loss affects all of these domains. However, tools to optimize youth sleep are generally lacking.
METHODS
This manuscript explains the rationale for the integration of sleep health education into schools, describes the barriers to sleep health education, outlines efforts made to address them in Canada, and discusses future directions for sleep health education in Canada.
RESULTS
There is unequivocal evidence that sleep plays critical roles in achieving the key goals to which Canadian schools are committed. Sleep restriction and poor sleep habits resulting from hectic, demanding, unbalanced lifestyles; pressure for academic success; participation in extracurricular activities; and the low priority given to sleep over competing activities are prevalent in Canadian youth of all ages and may significantly impair their learning, well-being, and health. Attempts to integrate sleep health education into school curricula meet with multiple barriers. Some of these barriers can be overcome by using community-based participation to develop and implement school-based sleep health education programs.
CONCLUSION
Successful school-based sleep health promotion programs hold the promise of having a long-lasting positive impact on students' physical and mental health, academic performance and daytime functioning.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30837115
pii: S1389-9457(19)30026-7
doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.01.037
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
9-15Informations de copyright
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