@article {433181,
	title = {Effects of a Workplace Intervention on Sleep in Employees{\textquoteright} Children},
	journal = {Journal of Adolescent Health},
	volume = {56},
	number = {6},
	year = {2015},
	pages = { 672{\textendash}677},
	abstract = {
	PurposeThe implications of sleep patterns for adolescent health are well established, but we know less about larger contextual influences on youth sleep. We focused on parents{\textquoteright} workplace experiences as extrafamilial forces that may affect youth sleep.MethodsIn a group-randomized trial focused on employee work groups in the information technology division of a Fortune 500 company, we tested whether a workplace intervention improved sleep latency, duration, night-to-night variability in duration, and quality of sleep of employees{\textquoteright} offspring, aged 9{\textendash}17 years. The intervention was aimed at promoting employees{\textquoteright} schedule control and supervisor support for personal and family life to decrease employees{\textquoteright} work{\textendash}family conflict and thereby promote the health of employees, their families, and the work organization. Analyses focused on 93 parent{\textendash}adolescent dyads (57 dyads in the intervention and 46 in the comparison group) that completed baseline and 12-month follow-up home interviews and a series of telephone diary interviews that were conducted on eight consecutive evenings at each wave.ResultsIntent-to-treat analyses of the diary interview data revealed main effects of the intervention on youth{\textquoteright}s sleep latency, night-to-night variability in sleep duration, and sleep quality, but not sleep duration.ConclusionsThe intervention focused on parents{\textquoteright} work conditions, not on their parenting or parent{\textendash}child relationships, attesting to the role of larger contextual influences on youth sleep and the importance of parents{\textquoteright} work experiences in the health of their children.

},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X15000725},
	author = {McHale, Susan M and Lawson, Katie M and Davis, Kelly D and Lynne M. Casper and Kelly, Erin L and Buxton, Orfeu M}
}
