TV keeps kids from sleeping at night

[whitedot]

Do you remember the debate about baby's first TV, and whether watching a 24-hour channel is good for infants?

Now, a Finnish study finds that 5- and 6-year-olds who watch TV are more likely to have trouble sleeping. Researchers said that was especially true if the children were watching adult targeted programs such as news and police shows.

The study in the Journal of Sleep Research found that the children were affected even if the TV was just on in the background.

http://www.nbc5.com/health/9307236/detail.html

[Dry Lips]

Insomnia link to excess TV watching

Children who spend hours in front of the television could be storing up sleep problems for later in life, say scientists.Watching three hours or more a day leaves teenagers twice as likely to develop sleep problems when they get older. Violent or disturbing programmes are likely to disrupt sleep patterns most of all, according to the research.

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TV and Insomnia

A German study of 137 teens found a "significant relationship between shortened sleep time and duration of daily television viewing." Furthermore, the data showed a connection between watching horror movies and having symptoms of insomnia. You can see other studies on media and sleep in the CMCH Database of Research.

http://cmch.typepad.com/cmch/2007/01/tv ... omnia.html