Since the early 1990s, the amount of sleep U.S. teenagers get each night has steadily decreased. Experts are alarmed by this trend, as losing less than one hour of sleep per night for a week has been shown to negatively affect young people’s mood, health, and ability to perform in school.
Teens are getting less sleep each year, which can impact their mood, physical well-being and school performance, experts say. Here are solutions they recommend.