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Health Promotion International, Vol. 8, No. 4, 281-289, 1993
© Oxford University Press 1993

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Sleeping habits of Finnish school children by sociodemographic background

JORMA TYNJÄLÄ and LASSE KANNAS

Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä Finland

Address for correspondence: Address for correspondence: Jorma Tynjälä, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Health Sciences, Box 35, SF-40351 Jyväskyla, Finland

This study investigated sleeping habits and sleep difficulties by selected sociodemographic background variables (age, sex, fathers occupation, urban v. rural environment and geographical region of Finland) among 11- to 16-year-old Finnish school children. The study is part of a larger, comparative, WHO-coordinated project on the health and life-style of school children (Health Behavior of School Aged Children—A WHO Cross-National Survey, the HBSC-Study). The Finnish research data represented the whole country. Using a standardized survey questionnaire the data were collected anonymously in schools in spring 19 Cleaned data were compiled from 2996 pupils. In general sleeping habits were healthy among adolescents but with increasing age unhealthy (irregular) sleeping habits as well as sleep difficulties emerged. Age and in some cases sex were important explanatory factors of sleeping habits and sleep difficulties. Other sociodemographic factors were far less correlated with sleep.

Key words: sleeping habits; adolescents; sociodemographic background; health promotion


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