Kristen Rogers
CNN
Kristen Rogers wrote this article in CNN:
Adolescence is a critical period of physical growth and self-discovery, but it also might be the most important phase for keeping an eye on your kid's insomnia.
Children who slept around seven hours or less when they were about age 9 were over two and a half times more likely to have insomnia in young adulthood (age 24 on average), compared with participants who had normal sleep during childhood, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics.
Adolescents who had insomnia had a 5.5 times higher risk of their symptoms worsening into adult insomnia in comparison to adolescents who had slept normally.
"Based on our and others' prior studies, we did not expect insomnia symptoms to persist in about 40% of (these) roughly 9-year-old children all the way through young adulthood once they were roughly 24 years old," said the study's lead author Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, a clinical psychologist board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine and director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine.
Adolescence is a critical period of physical growth and self-discovery, but it also might be the most important phase for keeping an eye on your kid's insomnia.
Children who slept around seven hours or less when they were about age 9 were over two and a half times more likely to have insomnia in young adulthood (age 24 on average), compared with participants who had normal sleep during childhood, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics.
Adolescents who had insomnia had a 5.5 times higher risk of their symptoms worsening into adult insomnia in comparison to adolescents who had slept normally.
"Based on our and others' prior studies, we did not expect insomnia symptoms to persist in about 40% of (these) roughly 9-year-old children all the way through young adulthood once they were roughly 24 years old," said the study's lead author Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, a clinical psychologist board-certified in behavioral sleep medicine and director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program at Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine.
