Trial reportPreventive medicine2016
Executive function mediates prospective relationships between sleep duration and sedentary behavior in children.
Trial report in Preventive medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- A critical systematic review of the impact of sedentarism and physical inactivity on the cognitive performance of children.Systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Sleep, Physical Activity, and Executive Functions in Students: A Narrative Review.Clocks & sleep · 2025Review
- Children's executive functioning and health behaviors across pediatric life stages and ecological contexts.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- The prospective associations of 24-hour movement behaviors and domain-specific activities with executive function and academic achievement among school-aged children in Singapore.Frontiers in public health · 2024Observational
- Unfavorable Behaviors in Children Run in Packs! Dietary and Non-Dietary Modulators of Attentional Capacity.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Time-Varying Associations Between Device-Based and Ecological Momentary Assessment-Reported Sedentary Behaviors and the Concurrent Affective States Among Adolescents: Proof-of-Concept Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines. The Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for children (5-12 years) and young people (13-17 years): An integration of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
- Does Prior Night's Sleep Impact Next Day's Executive Functioning? It Depends on an Individual's Average Sleep Quality.Journal for person-oriented research · 2022Article
- Association of sugar-sweetened beverages with executive function in autistic children.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Sleep, social behaviour and food consumption of schoolchildren of a large Brazilian city.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Physical Activity and Executive Function in Children With ADHD: The Mediating Role of Sleep.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- A good beginning: study protocol for a group-randomized trial to investigate the effects of sit-to-stand desks on academic performance and sedentary time in primary education.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Association Between Objectively Measured Sleep Duration and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders in Middle Childhood.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- Understanding differences between summer vs. school obesogenic behaviors of children: the structured days hypothesis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2017Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Childhood sedentary behavior has been linked to increased obesity risk. Prior work has identified associations between sedentary behavior, executive function (EF), and sleep. This study tested the hypothesis that reduced sleep duration may adversely impact EF and lead to increased childhood sedentary behavior. Southern California schoolchildren participating in the school-based health promotion program Pathways to Health (N=709) were assessed annually from 4th through 6th grades (2010-2013) on self-report measures of sedentary behavior, sleep duration, and executive function. A series of path models were specified treating average nightly sleep duration and weekend wake/bed-time shift at 4th grade as predictors of 6th grade sedentary behavior. Four EF subdomains were tested as potential mediators of longitudinal associations at 5th grade. Significant associations between average nightly sleep duration, EF and sedentary behavior were identified (p<0.05), adjusting for participant gender, physical activity, SES, ethnicity, program group assignment, and the presence/absence of parental screen time rules. Fifth grade overall EF (p<0.05)-and in particular the subdomains of inhibitory control (p<0.05) and organization of materials (p<0.01)-significantly mediated the relationship between 4th grade sleep duration and 6th grade sedentary behavior (p<0.05). Furthermore, delay of weekend bed- or wake-times relative to weekdays was prospectively associated with decreased overall EF (p<0.05), but not increased sedentary behavior (p=0.35 for bed-time delay; p=0.64 for wake-time delay), irrespective of average nightly sleep duration. Findings suggest that sleep promotion efforts may reduce children's sedentary behavior both directly and indirectly through changes in EF.
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