Abstract
Sleep is essential for children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being. Evidence, however, suggests insufficient sleep is a prevalent problem among them from many countries across the world, and is independently associated with a range of detrimental physical and mental health outcomes. These multiple negative impacts of insufficient sleep emphasize the need to provide children, adolescents, their parents and teachers with education on healthy sleep and tools that assist in achieving such sleep. The goal of this paper is to review sleep problems among children and adolescents, and to offer practical way to achieve a sleep education for them in school setting. Review of the published literature indicated that (1) sleep duration declines with age, resulting in a significantly reduced time in bed in older compared to younger adolescents, (2) sleep debt attributable to such insufficient sleep causes discrepancy in wake-up time on school days and free days, (3) these sleep problems are associated with daytime sleepiness and lowered mental/physical health, and (4) sleep education program with self-help treatment was effective on irregular sleep/wake patterns, daytime sleepiness and irritability. The key point for the success of sleep education program in school setting discussed.
https://ror.org/03t78wx29 
