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Children need many hours of sleep per day in order to develop and function properly: up to 18 hours for newborn babies, with a declining rate as a child ages. [67] Early in 2015, after a two-year study, [93] the National Sleep Foundation in the US announced newly revised recommendations as shown in the table below.
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Anxiety causes sleep problems for about 25% of children ages 1 to 6, according to a University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll. Those kids were less likely to have ...
For healthy individuals with normal sleep, the appropriate sleep duration for school-aged children is between 9 and 11 hours. [4] [5] Acute sleep deprivation occurs when a person sleeps less than usual or does not sleep at all for a short period, typically lasting one to two days. However, if the sleepless pattern persists without external ...
The seven components consist of subjective sleep quality, sleep disturbances, sleep duration, sleep latency, habitual sleep efficiency, use of sleep medications, and daytime dysfunction. The PSQI has a high internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.83). [43] The PSQI has been used in many studies assessing adolescent sleep quality.
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A newborn baby spends 8 to 9 hours a day just in REM sleep. By the age of five or so, only slightly over two hours is spent in REM. [82] The function of REM sleep is uncertain but a lack of it impairs the ability to learn complex tasks.
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