The Importance of Sleep
The Communities for Youth found a correlation between lack of sleep and depression in local youth. Of the 1,250 secondary students in Blaine County who responded to the survey:
27% are experiencing moderate to severe depression.
40% of students getting less than 8 hours of sleep per night are moderately to severely depressed, whereas
13% of students getting more than 8 hours of sleep per night are moderately to severely depressed.
Learn more:
• View the website Blaine County Initiative
• Sign up for the Communities for Youth newsletter
• View the Youth Well-Being Initiative slides
• Read The Sleep-Deprived Teen, by Lisa L. Lewis
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