More than one in four school-age children in Australia use screens in bed in the hour before sleep and one in 10 have caffeine after lunchtime most days of the week, a new survey looking at sleep habits has found.
The findings, released on Wednesday by researchers at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, analysed the answers of a nationally representative sample of 1,654 parents who were asked about the sleeping habits and behaviours of their children, aged between five and 17.
