Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014
Abstract Sleep has been found to be an important factor in adolescents’ mental and physical health. The aim of the present study was to examine trends in sleep difficulty (i.e., difficulty falling asleep more often than once a week) in the Nordic countries among 11- to 15-year-olds. We a...
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| author | Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson Thomas Potrebny Ársaell Már Arnarsson Jorma Tynjälä Raili Välimaa Charli Eriksson |
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Sleep has been found to be an important factor in adolescents’
mental and physical health. The aim of the present study was to
examine trends in sleep difficulty (i.e., difficulty falling asleep
more often than once a week) in the Nordic countries among 11- to
15-year-olds. We analysed Nordic data from the Health Behaviour
in School-aged Children study (HBSC), which is conducted every four
years, looking specifically at trends in sleep difficulty over a
12-year period from 2002 to 2014. The participants were aged 11
to 15 years. The total number of participants across these years
was 113,447. A large percentage (17% to 31% in 2014) of adolescents
in the Nordic countries experience sleep difficulty, and these difficulties
increased from 2002 to 2014 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden.
Only in Norway was there a decrease, mainly due to a reduction in
sleep difficulty among 11-year-old boys and girls from 2010 to 2014.
Sleep difficulty among boys and girls are prevalent and generally
on the rise in the Nordic countries with the exception of Norway. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-240e5ddf9717459dbdbaa261fb78ece52022-12-21T19:09:34ZdanUniversitetsforlagetNordisk Välfärdsforskning2464-41612019-01-014778710.18261/issn.2464-4161-2019-02-0518948693Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014Einar Baldvin ThorsteinssonThomas PotrebnyÁrsaell Már ArnarssonJorma TynjäläRaili VälimaaCharli ErikssonAbstract Sleep has been found to be an important factor in adolescents’ mental and physical health. The aim of the present study was to examine trends in sleep difficulty (i.e., difficulty falling asleep more often than once a week) in the Nordic countries among 11- to 15-year-olds. We analysed Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC), which is conducted every four years, looking specifically at trends in sleep difficulty over a 12-year period from 2002 to 2014. The participants were aged 11 to 15 years. The total number of participants across these years was 113,447. A large percentage (17% to 31% in 2014) of adolescents in the Nordic countries experience sleep difficulty, and these difficulties increased from 2002 to 2014 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Only in Norway was there a decrease, mainly due to a reduction in sleep difficulty among 11-year-old boys and girls from 2010 to 2014. Sleep difficulty among boys and girls are prevalent and generally on the rise in the Nordic countries with the exception of Norway.https://www.idunn.no/nordisk_valfardsforskning/2019/02/trends_in_sleeping_difficulty_among_adolescents_in_five_norsleep difficultyadolescentsNordic countriessleepdifficultyNordiccountries |
| spellingShingle | Einar Baldvin Thorsteinsson Thomas Potrebny Ársaell Már Arnarsson Jorma Tynjälä Raili Välimaa Charli Eriksson Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 Nordisk Välfärdsforskning sleep difficulty adolescents Nordic countries sleepdifficulty Nordiccountries |
| title | Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents
in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
| title_full | Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents
in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
| title_fullStr | Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents
in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents
in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
| title_short | Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents
in five Nordic countries 2002–2014 |
| title_sort | trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five nordic countries 2002 2014 |
| topic | sleep difficulty adolescents Nordic countries sleepdifficulty Nordiccountries |
| url | https://www.idunn.no/nordisk_valfardsforskning/2019/02/trends_in_sleeping_difficulty_among_adolescents_in_five_nor |
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