Mammeri Kevin, Riontino Laura, Schwartz Sophie, Sterpenich Virginie
Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Swiss Center for Affective Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Discov Public Health. 2025;22(1):517. doi: 10.1186/s12982-025-00923-w. Epub 2025 Sep 6.
Sleep is essential for effective daily cognitive and affective functioning, both of which are critical in the school context. In recent years, average nighttime sleep duration has been decreasing, particularly among teenagers, in parallel with an increase in screen time. Here, we aimed at assessing whether parental rules pertaining to the use of electronic devices in the evening were associated with enhanced sleep duration in healthy adolescents.
We asked 329 adolescents (13-15 years old) to fill in questionnaires collected within their schools.
We show that only the strictest parental rules regarding screen use (no smartphone in the room and no phone use in the evening) correlated with significantly longer sleep duration. Finally, our investigation revealed that sleep duration was linked to academic achievement, which was further enhanced by the presence of parental rules.
Taken together, these results suggest that promoting greater parental control over the use of electronic devices may potentially help alleviating sleep loss in adolescents.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12982-025-00923-w.
睡眠对于日常有效的认知和情感功能至关重要，而这两者在学校环境中都至关重要。近年来，夜间平均睡眠时间一直在减少，尤其是在青少年中，与此同时屏幕使用时间却在增加。在此，我们旨在评估与晚上使用电子设备相关的家长规定是否与健康青少年延长睡眠时间有关。
我们让329名青少年（13至15岁）填写在学校收集的问卷。
我们发现，只有关于屏幕使用的最严格家长规定（房间内不许使用智能手机且晚上不许使用手机）与显著更长的睡眠时间相关。最后，我们的调查显示睡眠时间与学业成绩有关，而家长规定的存在进一步提高了学业成绩。
综上所述，这些结果表明，加强家长对电子设备使用的控制可能有助于缓解青少年的睡眠不足。
在线版本包含可在10.1186/s12982-025-00923-w获取的补充材料。
