Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014

Title
Trends in sleeping difficulty among adolescents in five Nordic countries 2002–2014
Publication Date
2019
Author(s)
Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-1989
Email: ethorste@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ethorste
Potrebny, Thomas
Mar Arnarsson, Arsaell
Tynjala, Jorma
Valimaa, Raili
Eriksson, Charli
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Universitetsforlaget AS, Scandinavian University Press
Place of publication
Norway
DOI
10.18261/issn.2464-4161-2019-02-05
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/28621
Abstract
Sleep has been found to be an important factor in adolescents’ mental and physical health. The aim of the present study was to examine trends in sleep difficulty (i.e., difficulty falling asleep more often than once a week) in the Nordic countries among 11- to 15-year-olds. We analysed Nordic data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (HBSC), which is conducted every four years, looking specifically at trends in sleep difficulty over a 12-year period from 2002 to 2014. The participants were aged 11 to 15 years. The total number of participants across these years was 113,447. A large percentage (17% to 31% in 2014) of adolescents in the Nordic countries experience sleep difficulty, and these difficulties increased from 2002 to 2014 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. Only in Norway was there a decrease, mainly due to a reduction in sleep difficulty among 11-year-old boys and girls from 2010 to 2014. Sleep difficulty among boys and girls are prevalent and generally on the rise in the Nordic countries with the exception of Norway.
Link
Citation
Nordisk Vaelfaerdsforskning, 4(2), p. 77-87
ISSN
2464-4161
Start page
77
End page
87
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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