Insufficient Sleep Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sleep; children; adolescence; insufficient sleep syndrome
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Dear Colleagues,
Sleep is affected by bio-psycho-social factors. Sleep is essential for humans and good sleep is positively associated with health. However, the variability in sleep duration among individuals is quite high. Although several recommendations for adequate sleep duration have been known, these recommendations have a wide range due to the marked interindividual variations in each optic sleep duration. In modern society, most people, especially adolescents, tend to sleep for a much shorter duration, which leads to the development of insufficient sleep syndrome due to the accumulation of sleep debt. A previous study showed that among patients aged 20 years or less who visited an outpatient sleep clinic, 31% were diagnosed with insufficient sleep syndrome. To reduce sleep debt, it is important to find the individual’s optic sleep duration; however, no simple method to determine optic sleep duration has yet been established. In the current Special Issue, manuscripts on adolescent sleep, insufficient sleep syndrome and optimal sleep duration of adolescents from variable standpoints such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, academic performance and PVT, etc., are welcome, including those on the educational viewpoints to reduce insufficient sleep among adolescents.
Dr. Jun Kohyama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- insufficient sleep syndrome
- adolescent
- optimal sleep duration
- body mass index
- academic performance
- educational program
- suicide
- bio-psycho-social model
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