Bin Eid Wasmiah, Lieu An An, Neoh Michelle Jin Yee, Al-Zoubi Suhail Mahmoud, Esposito Gianluca, Dimitriou Dagmara
Sleep Education and Research Laboratory, UCL Institute of Education, 25 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AA, UK.
Psychology Program, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639818, Singapore.
Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Jul 25;10(8):1378. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10081378.
There are concerns regarding sleep deprivation among adolescents, especially with mounting evidence for the importance of sleep during puberty, and its effects on health and families. The present study aimed to characterise sleep in typical development (TD) adolescents in Saudi Arabia, and compare their sleep profiles to TD adolescents in the UK, to evaluate sleep patterns in adolescents in Saudi Arabia, and to examine the relationship between sleep patterns and the use of social media in both groups. Findings from the current study reported a shorter sleep duration for the Saudi Arabia group than in previous studies and the UK group, which may be attributed to the lack of sleep hygiene practised in Saudi Arabia. Multiple analysis of variance results found significant differences in daytime sleepiness (p < 0.001) and a preference for morningness/eveningness (p < 0.001) between Saudia Arabia and UK adolescents. Statistically significant negative correlations (p > 0.05) between the duration of social media usage and sleep duration were found in both the Saudi Arabia and UK adolescents, where a lower number of sleep hours was observed with a higher duration of social media use. This study fills a gap in the research of sleep in Saudi Arabia in adolescents, and offers important insights on the comparison in sleep habits between Saudi Arabia and UK adolescents.
青少年睡眠不足问题备受关注，尤其是随着青春期睡眠重要性的证据不断增加，以及其对健康和家庭的影响。本研究旨在描述沙特阿拉伯典型发育（TD）青少年的睡眠情况，并将他们的睡眠状况与英国的TD青少年进行比较，以评估沙特阿拉伯青少年的睡眠模式，并研究两组青少年睡眠模式与社交媒体使用之间的关系。当前研究结果显示，沙特阿拉伯组的睡眠时间比之前的研究以及英国组更短，这可能归因于沙特阿拉伯缺乏睡眠卫生习惯。多因素方差分析结果发现，沙特阿拉伯和英国青少年在白天嗜睡程度（p < 0.001）以及晨型/夜型偏好（p < 0.001）方面存在显著差异。在沙特阿拉伯和英国青少年中均发现，社交媒体使用时长与睡眠时间之间存在统计学上显著的负相关（p > 0.05），即社交媒体使用时长越高，睡眠时间越少。本研究填补了沙特阿拉伯青少年睡眠研究的空白，并为比较沙特阿拉伯和英国青少年的睡眠习惯提供了重要见解。
