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A SLEEPING PROGRAMME taught in school and at home might be the answer to improving children’s sleep behaviour, according to a study by Dublin City University (DCU).
As part of the study, 24 sixth-class children in an urban DEIS primary school were taught a sleep-based class by their teacher at school and their parents at home for five weeks.
The results from this showed a 31% reduction in daytime sleepiness, according to the study conducted by members of the DCU Institute of Education. It also found a 21% increase in the number of children who went to bed before 11pm all nights of the week.
Director of the Educational Disadvantage Centre and co-author of the report Dr Paul Downes said the results of the study showed a “real change” in sleeping patterns on school nights and awareness of the sleep issue, despite being conducted on a small sample group.
“It offers real promise for replication and development elsewhere,” said Downes in a statement.
“There is a glaring silence on this key educational and health issue of sleep deficits which will hopefully be remedied in the next National Children’s Policy Framework.”
Poor sleep duration can cause excessive sleepiness during the day which can lead to problems with concentration, attention and cognitive functioning.
Before the programme began, 63% of the children involved reported feeling that they needed more sleep going to school. After the study, this reduced to 32%.
75% of the group beforehand were going to bed before 11pm and this rose to 96% afterwards.
75% of those involved in the study also said they would go to bed earlier in the future after the study took place. The results also showed an increased awareness of the negative impacts electronic devices have on sleep.
The children were taught lessons on sleep health in school and they kept sleep diaries to give them a chance to reflect on their habits at home. Parents were also involved and took part in an information session with a professional sleep health consultant.
The report said that these results and the feedback from the children and parents involved suggests a “positive potential” for curriculum interventions to address the sleep needs of school children.
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Nightclubs can stay open, not a problem. Big weddings, sporting events and concerts, not a problem. No testing in schools, not a problem. But people going to work will spread covid????
Absolute joke. They haven’t a clue what they are doing.
So they are not supporting Antigen testing, aka “snake oil”.
This crowd need to be out to pasture.
@a: Antigen testing as a first check solution is ok but 2 a week should catch the virus. They are not accurate enough for a single test decision maker.
they are 50% right but also 50% wrong.
@Gary Kearney: They were spot on for my household. Anyone who was positive and negative came back so with an antigen test.
The highest incidence is among children of school-age. Would the science not say that this is where the chain of transmission shoukd be stopped? Or just not palatable message?
@Pablo Rojas Coppari: I’m a teacher with covid and the HSE contacted my close contacts but not my school.
Last week we told vast majority cases were 5 to 12 year old, so clamp down on pub certs, hair dresser, gyms..office, All the places 5 to 12 year olds frequent -)
Working from home doesn’t suit everyone. We’re more than 18 months into the pandemic and for people without families and a long commute working from home is very isolating and is putting a strain on mental health
@Wiggit93: the long commute in gridlock and waste of time heading to cities also wrecks mental health. Talk about a placeholder term you can put into anything to try and make your argument.
@Paul Cunningham: Im not saying get rid of working from home but its more fair to give the option of either or and people can then do what suits them best. It keeps going back towards working from home as being the only option
@Wiggit93: Well use the time on your commute to work on keeping your health good phyisical and otherwise. exercise, meet people outdoors. It works wonders.
@Gary Kearney: remember only meet up with half of the people your planning to meet
It’s as plain as the nose on ones face that this shower haven’t got a clue what they’re doing or what they’re supposed to do. Just more making stuff up as they go along. Beggars belief.
@Robert Clifford: You do with the same they dont know what they are doing no matter what the numbers are. If it is going well it was not them that did it. If its bad like now it is because they have no clue of what they are doing.
Big SHOCKER, Nphet dont spread the virus, people do not following their advice.
NPHET low key admitting that the vaccines don’t work here. If they worked, no “reinstatement” of the work from home policy would be needed.
NPHET, The Government, and the HSE need to embrace therapeutics like Ivermectin that have been proven to work.
The vaccines are BUNK.
@Roger Pollack: Big Up Nphet, Kid?
And would they consider doing something about schools at all? Or are they being quite about that because the government find it too tricky and have decided to just ignore schools instead? NPHET are meant to be seperate to government so it does seem odd that they’re avoiding mentioning schools completely. Back to the ol’ “it’s the public’s fault” line of blame.
The cure is in Donnellys egg head it’s plain to see
@Keith O Hanlon: not a nice comment calling anyone names says a lot about
Are they going to put the support staff in offices back on PUP, cleaners and caterers etc ?
Totally agree, language like estimation and uncertainty is proof of that
Yds
The numbers have steadily increased since they have started backing the use of antigen testing so could it be that more cases are being caught because of people being able to test at home and so easily?
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