Toronto: Students returning to their morning school schedule might have an inadvertent positive lifestyle impact as a new study has found that more teenagers will obtain the required amount of sleep as compared to pre-pandemic sleep patterns. According to the researchers in Toronto, encouraging better sleeping habits could help reduce teenagers' stress and improve their ability to cope in times of crisis.

The findings showed that the riddance of the morning commute, a delayed school start time and cancellation of extracurricular activities permitted teens to follow their 'delayed biological rhythm' or natural tendency to wake up and go to bed later. "The covid pandemic has indicated that delaying school start times could help and should be implemented by schools interested in supporting the mental health of their students," said lead author Reut Gruber from McGill University. For the study, published in the journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, the team included a group of developing adolescents in the study before - Time 1: January 15 to March 13 - and during - Time 2: May 15 to June 30 - the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada last year.

At Time 1, each participant's sleep pattern was assessed in the home environment using actigraphy (a non-invasive method of monitoring human rest/activity cycles) and sleep logs for seven consecutive nights.

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