The gap between the recovery time that teens need (they should sleep between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. each time) and the amount of sleep they allow themselves is growing. Result: 30% of middle school students have trouble getting up in the morning, 23% are drowsy (some even fall asleep in class) and 10% have a complete lack of energy during the day.
These worrying figures come from a survey carried out by the Morphée network (a health network dedicated to taking care of sleep disorders) among 776 middle school students in the Paris region.
“The time spent in front of screens in the evening, before bedtime, is increasing more and more in adolescents. This is a behavior that we have seen for ten years now. But what has changed is the screen used. The television has been abandoned in favor of computers and smartphones, whose brightness gives the impression to our internal clock that the night has not yet started, preventing the brain from initiating sleep signals “explains the doctor Sylvie Royant-Parola, president of the Morphée Network.
“Our teenagers are mutants: for them there is a continuity of time and sleep is no longer an isolated moment when everything stops before a new day” she adds.
High school students would thus miss two hours of sleep on school days (on weekends or on vacation, they compensate with sleeping late). A lack that has repercussions on their day. See which ones below.
