Manipulating Sleep Duration Alters Emotional Functioning and Cognitive Performance in Children

Vriend, Jennifer; Davidson, Fiona; Corkum, Penny; Rusak, Benjamin; Chambers, Christine T.; McLaughlin, Elizabeth

doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jst033

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“…Four studies were randomized experiments, 11 studies used a longitudinal design, and 47 studies used a cross-sectional design. All 4 randomized trials (Baum et al 2014;Dagys et al 2012;Tamura and Tanaka 2014;Vriend et al 2013) were consistent in showing better emotional regulation in the healthy sleep group compared with the sleep-restricted one. The quality of evidence was rated as high for the randomized trials.…”

Section: Emotional Regulationmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…Only 1 randomized trial examined this association (Vriend et al 2013) and found that short-term memory, working memory, divided attention, and math fluency scores were lower in children in the short sleep condition (1 h later in bed for 4 nights with usual wake-up time) compared with long sleep (1 h earlier for 4 nights relative to their typical bedtime). However, no differences were found for reaction time on alerting, orienting, sustained, or executive attention tasks between long and short sleep conditions.…”

Section: Cognition/academic Achievementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…a Includes 3 randomized cross-over studies (Vriend et al 2013;Baum et al 2014;Dagys et al 2012) and 1 randomized controlled trial (Tamura and Tanaka 2014). b Includes 11 longitudinal studies (Asarnow et al 2014;Barlett et al 2012;Chang and Gable 2013;Fredriksen et al 2004;Kalak et al 2014;Lin and Yi 2015;Lumeng et al 2007;Pasch et al 2012;Roberts and Duong 2014;Roberts et al 2009;Silva et al 2011).…”

Section: Harms/injuriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…a Randomized cross-over study (Vriend et al 2013). b Large standard deviations, small effect sizes, and only 1 study was published so the risk of imprecision is high (the quality of evidence was downgraded from high to moderate).…”

Section: Harms/injuriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Systematic review of the relationships between sleep duration and health indicators in school-aged children and youth

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Abstract:The objective of this systematic review was to examine the relationships between objectively and subjectively measured sleep duration and various health indicators in children and youth aged 5-17 years. Online databases were searched in January 2015 with no date or study design limits. Included studies were peer-reviewed and met the a priori-determined population (apparently healthy children and youth aged 5-17 years), intervention/exposure/comparator (various sleep durations), and outcome (adiposity, emotional regulation, cognition/academic achievement, quality of life/well-being, harms/injuries, and cardiometabolic biomarkers) criteria. Because of high levels of heterogeneity across studies, narrative syntheses were employed. A total of 141 articles (110 unique samples), including 592 215 unique participants from 40 different countries, met inclusion criteria. Overall, longer sleep duration was associated with lower adiposity indicators, better emotional regulation, better academic achievement, and better quality of life/well-being. The evidence was mixed and/or limited for the association between sleep duration and cognition, harms/injuries, and cardiometabolic biomarkers. The quality of evidence ranged from very low to high across study designs and health indicators. In conclusion, we confirmed previous investigations showing that shorter sleep duration is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes. However, the available evidence relies heavily on cross-sectional studies using self-reported sleep. To better inform contemporary sleep recommendations, there is a need for sleep restriction/extension interventions that examine the changes in different outcome measures against various amounts of objectively measured sleep to have a better sense of dose-response relationships.Key words: sleep duration, adiposity, body weight, emotional regulation, mental health, cognition, academic achievement, quality of life, well-being, injuries.Résumé : Cette analyse systématique a pour objectif d'examiner la relation entre la mesure objective et subjective de la durée du sommeil et d'autres indicateurs sanitaires chez des enfants et des jeunes âgés de 5 à 17 ans. En janvier 2015, une recherche est faite dans les bases de données en ligne sans contrainte de date et de devis utilisé. Les études retenues sont sanctionnées par des pairs et sont conformes aux critères a priori déterminés : la population (des jeunes apparemment en bonne santé âgés de 5 à 17 ans), l'intervention/exposition/comparaison (durées variées du sommeil) et le résultat (adiposité, contrôle des émotions, cognition/ rendement scolaire, qualité de vie/bien-être, préjudices/blessures et biomarqueurs cardiométaboliques). À cause du haut niveau d'hétérogénéité des études, on utilise des synthèses narratives. Au total, 141 articles (110 échantillons originaux) incluant 592 215 participants distincts de 40 pays différents sont conformes aux critères d'inclusion. Globalement, une plus longue durée de sommeil est associée aux indicateurs de ...

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Section: Emotional Regulationmentioning

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Section: Harms/injuriesmentioning

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“…8 Furthermore, when facing an emotional challenge (solvable and unsolvable puzzles), nap-deprived children displayed dampened positive emotions to solvable puzzles as well as increased negative emotions to unsolvable puzzles. Vriend and colleagues 9 reported that 1 hour of sleep restriction for 4 consecutive nights resulted in increased sleepiness, less positive affective response to stimuli, and increased difficulty in emotion regulation, in children aged 8 to 12 years. These findings establish a causal influence of sleep on emotional outcomes across childhood.…”

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Effects of Genotype and Sleep on Temperament

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, on behalf of the MAVAN research team abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Sleep problems are frequent in young children; however, children vary in the degree to which they are affected by poor sleep quality. We investigated whether a polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene, which is linked to emotional function, is a potential moderator of the influences of sleep duration on infant temperament using longitudinal data. METHODS:We examined the interactive effects of average sleep duration between 6 and 36 months of age and the 5-HTTLPR genotype on negative emotionality/behavioral dysregulation at 36 months in 209 children recruited into a longitudinal birth cohort study. Triallelic genotyping of 5-HTTLPR was performed by looking at SLC6A4 genotype, focusing on the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) including the SNP polymorphism (rs23351). Child sleep habits were assessed with a maternal self-report questionnaire.RESULTS: After controlling for demographics and both previous and concurrent maternal depression, multiple linear regression analyses revealed a significant interaction effect of average sleep duration for the first 3 years of life and 5-HTTLPR genotype on child negative emotionality/behavioral dysregulation such that the effects were exclusive to those with low-expressing 5-HTTLPR genotypes. CONCLUSIONS:The results suggest differential susceptibility to the effect of sleep duration early in life, which reiterates that the short allele of the 5-HTTLPR represents a marker of increased environmental sensitivity regarding emotional development. Differential susceptibility theory posits that certain factors may increase an individual's susceptibility to the environment, in either a positive or negative fashion. WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT:Sleep disturbances in infants associate with individual differences in temperament. However, little is known about interindividual differences and potential moderating factors, such as genotype. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:The results suggest that the cumulative effect of total sleep duration during the first 3 years of life on temperament is moderated by child 5-HTTLPR genotype following a differential susceptibility model.

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Association Between Objectively Measured Sleep Duration and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders in Middle Childhood

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IMPORTANCE The long-term association between sleep duration and mental health in children is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE To investigate the prospective associations between sleep duration and symptoms of emotional and behavioral disorders at ages 6, 8, 10, and 12 years. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This population-based cohort study obtained data from the Trondheim Early Secure Study in Trondheim, Norway. A representative, stratified random sample of children born between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2004, were invited to participate.

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Manipulating Sleep Duration Alters Emotional Functioning and Cognitive Performance in Children

Abstract: Results suggest that even modest differences in sleep duration over just a few nights can have significant consequences for children's daytime functioning. These findings demonstrate the important impact of sleep duration on children's daytime functioning.

Cited by 187 publications

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Systematic review of the relationships between sleep duration and health indicators in school-aged children and youth

Systematic review of the relationships between sleep duration and health indicators in school-aged children and youth

Effects of Genotype and Sleep on Temperament

Association Between Objectively Measured Sleep Duration and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders in Middle Childhood

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