Eine landesweite Umfrage ergab, dass 77 Prozent der Oberstufenschüler im Jahr 2023 nicht ausreichend Schlaf bekamen | Von den Befragten gaben 23 % der Teenager an, fünf Stunden oder weniger zu schlafen, was als „sehr kurzer Schlaf“ gilt.
A rising percentage of U.S. teens aren’t getting enough sleep
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>The percentage of U.S. high school students who aren’t getting enough shut-eye is climbing.
>U.S. medical societies recommend that teens sleep eight to 10 hours each night. But in 2023, 77 percent of high school students reported slumbering fewer hours than that, up from 69 percent of those surveyed in 2007. The overall rise was due [to a jump in those reporting five hours of sleep or less](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/10.1001/jama.2026.1417?guestAccessKey=1c92cf13-68a6-4c5b-bfcb-1688af6f9544&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=030226), researchers report March 2 in the *Journal of the American Medical Association*.
>The study analyzed data from the Youth Risk Behavior Study, a long-term, national survey of students in public and private high schools. Seven hours of sleep or less describes insufficient sleep, while five hours or less counts as very short sleep. The percentage of students reporting insufficient sleep remained about the same from 2007 to 2023. But the percentage of very short sleepers rose from 16 to 23 percent.
[Read more here](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/teens-sleep-deprived-us-high-school) and the [research article here](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2845759?guestAccessKey=1c92cf13-68a6-4c5b-bfcb-1688af6f9544&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=030226).
And remember with child obesity being so common now even if they’re in bed for eight hours a night, they might not be getting good sleep, instead they may suffer from obstructive sleep apnea.
Playing video games all night and sitting on phone for 6 hours a day in tiktok will do that.
Makes sense, I never slept more than 6 hours in high school. Usually less.
When so much of your day is dedicated to school (class, activities, or homework), you start sabotaging your sleep in order to take back “free time”.
I mean that’s just normal sleep in high school and college…
It infuriates me that in my school district, the board panders to the desire of the teachers to start early so that they still have time for their side gigs in the afternoon. The kids start at 7, which is the worst thing you can do to teenagers. The wellbeing of the students is of zero concern to them.
schools start way too early. plus way too many unnecessary classes. its ridiculous. schools need reform
More than 20 years ago, allowing a couple guys that looked just like the guy in the article image to copy my homework was the only way they graduated. Today one is a mechanic, the other a security guard.
They’re still tired, though.
Maybe these scientists should stop telling us we’re living wrong and start tearing down the reasons why people try to steal back their free time from sleep. The 5 day work week needs to end.
Not surprising.
I would routinely stay up until 1 or 2 am playing games, wake up at 6:30-7 and then use my first period class as a nap class to catch up on lost sleep.
There are tons of studies that show schools that start later around 9/10 have increased performance, but the problem (at least in the US) is that school has to start at before 8 because most parents go to work at 8-9.
4-5 hrs of homework a night, if you’re in honors classes, plus activities, equals no sleep.
I mean, yeah, keep forcing kids to get up at 5 or 6am and you’ll fuckin‘ have that.
I slept 4-6 hrs a night from high school through college and I am NOT FINE.
I always skip wednesdays