{"id":3736,"date":"2014-12-31T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2015-01-10T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T22:41:07","slug":"for-sleeping-children-quality-is-more-important-than-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/for-sleeping-children-quality-is-more-important-than-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"For sleeping children, quality is more important than quantity<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english3\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For young children, the quality of sleep may be more important than the duration of sleep when it comes it academic performance, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that a high percentage of time in bed spent sleeping influenced positively a child\u2019s grades in math, English, and French as a second language, while grades in science, technology and the arts were relatively unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers monitored the sleep 75 elementary school children between seven and 11 years old for five consecutive weeknights. The researchers measured the duration and quality of each child\u2019s sleep using an actigraph, a small watch-like device. This information was combined with a sleep log of the time each child went to bed and woke up, recorded by the parents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleep-journal.com\/article\/S1389-9457(14)00353-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in print in\u00a0<em>Sleep Medicine <\/em>in\u00a0<strong>December<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglas.qc.ca\/researcher\/reut-gruber?locale=en\" target=\"_blank\">Reut Gruber<\/a><\/span>, \u00a0McGill University, Qu\u00e9bec<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For young children, the quality of sleep may be more important than the duration of sleep when it comes it academic performance, according to a new study. The researchers found that a high percentage of time in bed spent sleeping influenced positively a child\u2019s grades in math, English, and French as a second language, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[992,975,282,51,200,849],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-brain","tag-children","tag-education","tag-health","tag-neurology","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}