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- The amount of time children spend on devices has little effect on how long they sleep, a study from Oxford University suggests. It runs counter to previous research that suggested excessive screen time was linked to children failing to get sufficient rest.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46109023Children's screen time has little effect on sleep, says study
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Oct 9, 2018 · There is the possibility that children who already have difficulty falling asleep are provided with the opportunity to watch more TV, to watch TV later, and to watch TV in their bedrooms to aid sleep onset.
Sep 28, 2020 · Children who have a TV in their room have been found to sleep 31 minutes less per day, for instance. Educational TV content has been shown to help improve behaviour, literacy and...
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Exciting or disturbing content can cause sleep problems.
Binge-viewing (watching multiple episodes of a TV show in one session) has been linked with poor sleep quality and insomnia, possibly because viewers become overly-stimulated before bedtime. Their minds become too active for sleep (Exelmans and Van den Bulck 2017). There is also evidence connecting television content with dreams. People who view violent or distressing content (from fictional television programs or TV news coverage) are more likely to have violent, disturbing dreams (Van den B...
Watching television content in bed — on a computer screen — has been linked with insomnia symptoms.
But the same research found no links between insomnia symptoms and watching content on a television screen (Fossum et al 2014). Why the discrepancy? It might reflect differences in blue light exposure. Researchers have confirmed that the distance of the light source matters (Yoshimura et al 2017). So watching a traditional TV screen that’s across the room is less likely to disrupt melatonin production than watching a small computer screen close to your face.
Using television as a sleep aid may be counter-productive.
Some adults say they watch television as a sleep aid. Does it help? That’s unclear. But people who use TV in this way are more likely to report poor quality and daytime fatigue (Exelmans and De Bulck 2016). Leaving the television on during the transition to sleep might help a person cope with nighttime anxiety, and provide distraction from intrusive thoughts. But these benefits are countered by costs. For example, the ongoing background noise may cause sleep disturbances that prevent people f...
Trends among the very young: Screen use in babies and toddlers is linked with shorter sleep, and tablet use may be especially problematic.
Two recent studies — both involving approximately 700 children — provide evidence. In a study conducted in Singapore on children under the age of two, researchers found that screen time was an important predictor of sleep time (Chen et al 2019). For every hour each day that babies viewed content on televisions or tablets, they slept about 16 minutes less. Another study, conducted in the United Kingdom, focused on children between the ages of 6 months and 3 years. Researchers analyzed the dist...
Preschoolers: TV-viewing is linked with shorter sleep duration, later bedtimes, less consolidated nighttime sleep, and lower quality sleep.
Not every study reports the same results. But most have reported at least some of these links. For instance, in France, Spain, and the United States, researchers studying sleep among children aged 3-5 have discovered the same pattern: More television, less sleep (Plancoulaine et al 2018; Marinelli et al 2014; Cespedes et al 2014; Helm and Spencer 2019). How much less? In a recent study, researchers Abigail Helm and Rebecca Spencer tracked 470 preschoolers, and compared kids who watched less t...
Older, school-aged kids may also experience shorter sleep, as well as certain sleep-related problems.
Once again, not every study has reported an effect. But overall, there is a trend. For example, in a study of more than 700 British kids (11- to 12-year-olds), researchers found that time spent watching television was inversely associated with total sleep duration. Frequent bedtime television viewers also had nearly 4 times the odds of sleep-walking, and even higher odds of awakening very early in the morning (Arora et al 2014). Another study of approximately 500 elementary school children in...
Nighttime viewing is especially disruptive.
When Michelle Garrison’s team examined the effects of nighttime viewing, they found special links with sleep problems (Garrison et al 2011): The more time kids spent watching TV in the evening, the more difficulty they had falling asleep. They were also more likely to experience nightmares and daytime tiredness. By contrast, daytime viewing — of age-appropriate, non-violent content — was not linked with these problems (Garrison et al 2011). Other research supports the idea that nighttime view...
Interestingly, researchers haven’tfound that bedroom televisions affect sleep in adults (Custers and Van De Bulck 2012). But for kids, it’s another matter. For instance, in Canada, China, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, and the United States, children tend to get less sleep when there is a television in the bedrooms (Chahal et al 2013; Dube et ...
If we replace violent TV content with non-violent alternatives, won’t children be bored or dissatisfied? Experiments suggest otherwise. Kids may actually prefer non-violent programming. Read more about this fascinating research in my article, “Television violence: Do kids (and adults) like it?” Wondering about the effects of television on a young c...
Akçay D and Akçay BD. 2018. The influence of media on the sleep quality in adolescents. Turk J Pediatr. 60(3):255-263. Arora T, Broglia E, Thomas GN, Taheri S. 2014. Associations between specific technologies and adolescent sleep quantity, sleep quality, and parasomnias. Sleep Med. 15(2):240-7 Bagley EJ, Fuller-Rowell TE, Saini EK, Philbrook LE, El...
Feb 13, 2024 · The current evidence suggested that overall screen use and the content of presleep screen use impaired the sleep health of children, but there was minimal published evidence that the light of presleep screen use affected children’s sleep health.
Jun 2, 2023 · Children are particularly vulnerable to sleep problems stemming from electronic devices that emit blue light. Numerous studies have established a link between using devices with screens before bed and increases in sleep latency, or the amount of time it takes someone to fall asleep.
Apr 18, 2021 · Studies included children and adolescents from countries around the world. 87% of the studies showed at least one adverse sleep outcome with screen use. 43 out of 56 (77%) studies reported significant negative impacts on sleep outcomes with television (TV) watching; Five studies showed that the mere presence of a television set in the room ...
May 3, 2021 · Sleep experts suggest not sleeping with the TV on. The TV can reduce your sleep time, interrupt melatonin production, overstimulated the brain, and more.
