School children are getting depression due to lack of sleep
Less than sleep of 8 hours a day, children have an impact on the education: Marks decreases by 15 numbers: Research
For children aged 11- 15, 58 hours a week and sleep more than 8 hours daily is necessary. Children are compromising with sleep because of the pressure of studies, but with less sleep they have a negative impact on the education as well as their health. Sleep loss from 83% to 92% in children.
Due to increased sleep loss, children are impacting on the academic performance.
In the mathematics, science and English, the average number of children who take less sleep reduces to 15 numbers. The problem of depression and mood swings is also increasing due to the low sleep taking.
Conduction of Research
All these results have come out in the research conducted by Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Physiology Department of Delhi's Safdarjang Hospital.
The hospital conducted research on 501 schoolchildren in Delhi. These included 295 male students, while 206 were female students. Children were divided into two groups - Pre-teenagers (11-12 years of child) and teenagers (13 to 15 year old). In these 501 children, number of Pre-teenagers was 183 and the number of teenagers was 318. Children were asked a few questions.
Results of Research
The results were based on their responses. Dr. Suri, who lead the research team, said that "the trend came from the results that teenagers take less sleep compared to the Pre-teenagers." The effect is on their average marks "The result came out that 34 per cent of the Pre-teenagers take sleep on weekdays (Monday to Friday) on when it comes to sleep. In teenagers these figures also fall to 30%.
27% of the Pre-teenagers due to study pressure, while 31 percent of teenagers are not sleeping on time. The Pre-teenagers fall asleep between 9:25 to 10:30, while teenagers are able to sleep on average between 10:23 to 11:17 a.m. 4% of the Pre-teenagers believed gadgets to cause their sleep to be spoiled. This figure has increased to 6% in teenagers.
Sleep loses less in pre-teens, hence average marks more
Sleep loss increases in children with age
