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A call to action: the need to recognize the importance of sleep for children and adolescents in pediatric palliative care
Mercante A, Owens J · Sleep · 2025
Extract A global call to action was recently proposed to recognize sleep health as a foundation of human health [1]. The importance of good sleep and the negative impact of sleep deficiency on physical and emotional well-being have been extensively established [2]. There is substantial evidence supporting numerous key functions of sleep on the brain and other physiological systems throughout the body, including vigilance, performance, cognition, brain waste clearance, energy conservation, modulation of immune response, and metabolic regulation. Sleep health plays an even more significant role in the pediatric age group. Sleep is critical to a child’s physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development, with implications for their neurobehavioral functioning and general well-being [3]. Although poor sleep in children and adolescents has been a major health concern and has received growing attention in recent years [4, 5], it remains under-recognized and under-addressed in special populations such as those with palliative care needs [6].
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