Prevalence and correlates of poor sleep among adolescents
V. A. Price, T. J. Coates, C. E. Thoresen and O. A. Grinstead
The Stanford Sleep Inventory was given to 639, 11th- and 12th-grade
students to assess the prevalence and correlates of poor sleep among an
adolescent population. Of the sample reported, 49.8% had no sleep problems,
whereas 37.6% reported occasional sleep disturbance and 12.6% reported
chronic and severe sleep disturbance. Students complaining of disturbed
sleep were more likely than good sleepers to describe negatively their
physical and personality characteristics. The clinical implications of
these data for developing educationally-based nondrug treatment of the
complaint of insomnia among adolescents are discussed.
