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Seog Ju Kim, MD, PhD; Yu Jin Lee, MD, PhD; Seong-Jin Cho, MD, PhD; In-Hee Cho, MD, PhD; Weonjeong Lim, MD, PhD; Wonshin Lim, MD, PhD

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165(9):806-812. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.128

Objective  To investigate the relationship between insufficient sleep and poor attention in Korean adolescents, adjusting for potential confounding factors of depressed mood and habitual snoring.

Design  School-based cross-sectional study.

Setting  Eight high schools in 3 cities in the Republic of Korea.

Participants  A sample of 2638 urban high school students (42.2% male and 57.8% female; mean [SD] age, 17.3 [0.6] years [age range, 14-19 years]) completed questionnaires and computerized attention tasks during the school term.

Exposure  Weekend catch-up sleep.

Main Outcome Measures  Self-reported sleep schedules and habits, including sleep duration, bedtime, wake-up time, depressed mood, and habitual snoring. Also measured were numbers of omission and commission errors on computerized attention tasks.

Results  The mean (SD) sleep duration on weekdays was 5 hours 42 minutes (1 hour 0 minutes) per day and on weekends was 8 hours 24 minutes (1 hour 36 minutes) per day. The mean (SD) weekend catch-up sleep was 2 hours 42 minutes (1 hour 42 minutes) per day. After adjusting for age, sex, depressed mood (Beck Depression Inventory score, 10), habitual snoring, and weekday sleep duration, increased weekend catch-up sleep was significantly associated with more omission and commission errors on sustained attention tasks (P < .001 and P = .03, respectively) and on divided attention tasks (P = .01 and P = .04, respectively).

Conclusions  Increased weekend catch-up sleep as an indicator of insufficient weekday sleep is associated with poor performance on objective attention tasks. Assessment of catch-up sleep and sleep duration may be useful for physicians to evaluate sleep insufficiency and its adverse effects on attention in adolescents.

Author Affiliations: Department of Psychiatry, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon (Drs Kim, Lee, S.-J. Cho, and I.-H. Cho), Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Ewha Women's University, Seoul (Dr Weonjeong Lim), and Department of Child Welfare, Namseoul University, Cheonan (Dr Wonshin Lim), Republic of Korea.

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