Teenagers Sleeping Pattern Affecting their Health

Abstract

Sleep is a fundamental need. Teenagers need adequate sleep to cope well in everyday life. However, there is no firm evidence on which factors protect or impair teenagers but in today’s era it has been seen that teenager’s don’t fulfill their sleeping requirements. There are various factors responsible for ones not getting enough sleep, such as busy schedules, active social life, going out with friends more, watching late night movies, forgetting the time playing computer games, after school sport activities and homework commitments etc. Sleep affects physical growth, behavior and emotional development besides learning, and attention. Sleep research suggests that a teenager needs between 8 to 9 hour every night. The Objective beside this review was to understand the scope of teenagers sleep patterns, to understand the effect of sleep patterns, examine how much sleep we need, and learn how to improve our quality of sleep. There are many theories concerning the need for sleep. However, what we know has primarily evolved from research studies conducted in animals and humans examining the impact of sleep patterns on the physiological and neurobehavioral system. During sleep create new pathways of the brain that may interfere with the learning memory. The brain of a sleepy person works harder, but performs less. Sleep can be called "food for the brain. If brain gets affected ultimately health gets affected. Lack of sleep not only affects our mental fitness, but also our physical well-being. It endangers our personality in several indirect way. Teenager’s sleep habits tend to change as they enter puberty. The teenage years are a time when the body clock, an internal structure that controls our daily rhythm, undergoes major changes.