Abstract
Healthy People 2020 established a national objective to increase the proportion of
9th-to-12th-grade students reporting sufficient sleep. A salient approach for achieving
this objective is to delay middle and high school start times. Despite decades of
research supporting the benefits of delayed school start times on adolescent sleep,
health, and well-being, progress has been slow. Accelerating progress will require
new approaches incorporating strategies that influence how school policy decisions
are made. In this commentary, we introduce four strategies that influence decision-making
processes and demonstrate how they can be applied to efforts aimed at changing school
start time policies.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 30, 2017
Accepted:
July 24,
2017
Received in revised form:
July 10,
2017
Received:
May 29,
2017
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