Sleep in Adolescents:

biologic, psychological, and socio-cultural influences. nights than school nights). The most recent US poll of sleep patterns in adolescents was reported by the National Sleep Foundation in 2006, and collected self- and parent-reported sleep patterns from grades 6 through 12.16 These data serve as a good example of these general trends, as shown in Table 1. The young people interviewed in this telephone poll reported that average bedtime on the nights before school days were approxi-eekend bedtime delayed from 10:31 PM to 12:45 AM across this same grade span. Sixth grader