ReviewSleep health2018
Racial/ethnic sleep disparities in US school-aged children and adolescents: a review of the literature.
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179 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A systematic review of the association between sleep health and stress biomarkers in children.Sleep medicine reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Electronic media use and sleep in children and adolescents in western countries: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2021Pooled it
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- A sleep promotion program for insufficient sleep among adolescents: a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Trial
- Leveraging Ecological Momentary Assessment to Examine Bi-directional Associations Between Sleep Quality, Adolescent/Young Adult Alcohol Craving and Use.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023Trial
- Effects of a Responsive Parenting Intervention Among Black Families on Infant Sleep: A Secondary Analysis of the Sleep SAAF Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Nighttime sleep duration and variability in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: Sociodemographic disparities and neurobehavioral outcomes.Sleep medicine · 2023Trial
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- Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Trial
- Sleeping through the ages: Developmental trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep-wake patterns across adolescence and emerging adulthood.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Sleep does not occur in isolation: contextualizing adolescent sleep disparities.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Article
- Racial/ethnic disparities in grade point averages and absences among 9th graders in Georgia: the role of sleep differences.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Article
- Smartphone-Measured Sleep Health Risk Factors Detect Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adolescents.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Smartphone Use on School Nights in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.JAMA pediatrics · 2026Article
- Sleep Duration and Body Mass Index Among Adolescents: Variation by Age and Race/Ethnicity.Clocks & sleep · 2026Article
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Abstract
Sleep is essential for optimal health, well-being, and cognitive functioning, and yet nationwide, youth are not obtaining consistent, adequate, or high-quality sleep. In fact, more than two-thirds of US adolescents are sleeping less than 8 hours nightly on school nights. Racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents are at an increased risk of having shorter sleep duration and poorer sleep quality than their white peers. In this review, we critically examined and compared results from 23 studies that have investigated racial/ethnic sleep disparities in American school-aged children and adolescents ages 6-19 years. We found that White youth generally had more sufficient sleep than minority youth, Hispanics had more than Blacks, and there was inconclusive evidence for Asians and other minorities. Recommendations for researchers include the following: (1) explore underlying causes of the disparities of these subpopulations, with a particular interest in identifying modifiable causes; (2) examine factors that may be impacted by racial/ethnic sleep disparities; (3) use a multidimensional approach to measuring sleep disparities; and (4) examine how beliefs about sleep are patterned by race/ethnicity. Understanding sleep disparities can inform interventions, policies, and educational programs to minimize sleep disparities and their impact on health, psychological, and educational outcomes.
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