Does sleep education change sleep parameters? Comparing sleep education trials for middle school students in Australia and New Zealand Blunden, S., Kira, G., Hull, M. and Maddison, R. 2012, Does sleep education change sleep parameters? Comparing sleep education trials for middle school students in Australia and New Zealand, Open sleep journal, vol. 5, pp. 12-18, doi: 10.2174/1874620901205010012. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads maddison-doessleep-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 300.39KB 28 Title Does sleep education change sleep parameters? Comparing sleep education trials for middle school students in Australia and New Zealand Author(s) Blunden, S. Kira, G. Hull, M. Maddison, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-8564-5518 Journal name Open sleep journal Volume number 5 Start page 12 End page 18 Total pages 7 Publisher Bentham Science Place of publication Beijing, China Publication date 2012 ISSN 1874-6209 Keyword(s) sleep education behaviour change adolescents sleep duration sleep knowledge Summary Background: Adolescents suffer daytime consequences from sleep loss. Sleep education programs have been developed in an attempt to increase sleep knowledge and/or duration. This paper presents data from three trials of the Aus-tralian Centre for Education in Sleep (ACES) program for adolescents. Methods: The ACES program was delivered to 69 Australian adolescents in a pre-post cross-sectional design (mean age 15.2) and 29 New Zealand adolescents in a randomised control trial (mean age 14.8 years). Assessments in sleep parame-ters were undertaken at baseline and post intervention. Results: Where sleep knowledge was evaluated (Australian trials), significant improvements were shown in all trials (All p <0.05). Where sleep duration was assessed (New Zealand trial) significant improvements were found in week and weekend sleep duration [F(1, 27)=4.26, p=0.04). Both, students and teachers found the program feasible, interesting, and educational. Conclusions: ACES sleep education programmes can improve both sleep knowledge and sleep duration in adolescents. Improving the programme so sleep knowledge attained equates to actual sleep behaviour change are areas for future direc-tion. Collectively these findings provide encouraging signs that adolescents can improve their sleep knowledge and behav-iour with sleep education which bodes well for sleep-related health and psycho-social issues. Language eng DOI 10.2174/1874620901205010012 Field of Research 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 920499 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2012, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Use Rights Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30082037 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 09 Mar 2016, 11:34:02 EST Thu, 10 Mar 2016, 04:00:54 EST Thu, 10 Mar 2016, 05:24:00 EST Thu, 22 Sep 2016, 11:48:59 EST Thu, 22 Sep 2016, 11:51:59 EST Thu, 22 Sep 2016, 11:52:57 EST Fri, 24 Mar 2017, 14:26:16 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 148 Abstract Views, 29 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 09 Mar 2016, 11:34:02 EST

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