Sleep guidelines recommend no screen use in an hour or two before bed. However, we found screen time in the two hours before bed had little impact on young people’s sleep. Instead, it was screen time once in bed that caused problems Sleep guidelines recommend no screen use in the hour or two before bed. However, we found screen time in the two hours before bed had little impact on young people’s sleep. Instead, it was screen time once in bed that caused problems. Using cameras to track device usage and sleep, we found using a device in bed could cause more harm than screen time right up to bedtime. These findings challenge long-held assumptions about screen time at night and could help parents improve the quality of their children’s sleep. adolescents used screens in the two hours before bed, more than half once they were in bed, and a third even after first trying to go to sleep for the night. Just one teenager did not use screens before bed on any of the four nights. The screen time before they got into bed had little impact on their sleep that night. However, screen time once in bed did impair their sleep. It stopped them from going to sleep for about half an hour, and reduced the amount of sleep they got that night. This was particularly true for more interactive screen activities like gaming and multitasking when they use more than one device at the same time
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