American Teenagers Are Sleeping Less: Study

Researchers said the paper shows ‘a broad increase in insufficient sleep across all demographic groups.’

Researchers deemed anything less than eight hours of sleep per night to be insufficient. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock

More teenagers in the United States are sleeping short periods of time each night, according to a new study published on March 2 by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Among high school students in America, more reported sleeping five or fewer hours, researchers found when analyzing data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.