Technology is highly implicated in sleep problems. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at data from twenty studies involving more than 125,000 children ages six to eighteen. If a child had access to a screen at bedtime at least three times a week, the researchers saw an 88 percent increase in the child’s risk of not getting sufficient sleep and a 53 percent increased risk of poor sleep quality. The findings held up even if the devices weren’t used. Just having a phone or a tablet in the bedroom increases sleep problems.
