OBJECTIVE: Sleep is vital to supporting adolescent behavioral health and functioning; however, sleep disturbances remain under-recognized and undertreated in many health care settings.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 6 representative gaps

• Sleep and school attendance in adolescence: Results from a large population-based study (2014) · doi

  CONCLUSION: The demonstrated relationship between sleep problems and school absence suggests that careful assessment of sleep is warranted when adolescents present with extensive school absence future studies on how the sleep-school absence relationship in adolescence may impact later work affiliation in adulthood are needed.

  Keywords: sleep school absence relationship conclusion problems suggests careful assessment warranted adolescents present extensive future adolescence
• Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression (2020) · doi

  However, little is known about the nature of sleep problems amongst adolescents with anxiety and depression, and whether specific sleeping difficulties are involved in the longitudinal relationship between sleep, anxiety and depression.

  Keywords: sleep anxiety depression little known nature problems amongst adolescents whether specific sleeping difficulties involved longitudinal
• Caffeine Consumption, Sleep, and Affect in the Natural Environments of Depressed Youth and Healthy Controls (2007) · doi

  OBJECTIVE: Sleep problems are a cardinal symptom of depression in children and adolescents and caffeine use is a prevalent and problematic issue in youth; yet little is known about caffeine use and its effects on sleep in youth with depression.

  Keywords: sleep depression caffeine youth objective problems cardinal symptom children adolescents prevalent problematic issue little known
• Regularity and Timing of Sleep Patterns and Behavioral Health Among Adolescents (2021) · doi

  OBJECTIVE: Sleep is vital to supporting adolescent behavioral health and functioning; however, sleep disturbances remain under-recognized and undertreated in many health care settings.

  Keywords: sleep health objective vital supporting adolescent behavioral functioning disturbances remain recognized undertreated care settings
• Longitudinal Associations Between Parenting Practices and Youth Sleep Problems (2021) · doi

  Parenting practices are among the many familial factors that could be transactionally related to poor sleep in youth; however, research is lacking on potential longitudinal associations between parenting practices and sleep problems in youth.

  Keywords: parenting practices sleep youth among familial factors transactionally related poor lacking potential longitudinal associations problems
• Bullying Involvement in Adolescence: Implications for Sleep, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes (2019) · doi

  Adolescents’ involvement in bullying is associated with both sleep and mental health problems, but the nature of this association remains unclear; further, its association with academic outcomes has received little attention.

  Keywords: association adolescents involvement bullying associated sleep mental health problems nature remains unclear further academic outcomes