Contact: Dr. Jodi Mindell, 610.660.1806, [email protected]
Press contact: Tom Durso, 610.660.1532, [email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saint Joseph's Psychologist Set to Offer Her Expertise for National Sleep Awareness Week
National Sleep Awareness Week, from March 26 through April 2, will offer Saint Joseph's University psychologist Dr. Jodi A. Mindell the chance to spread the news about the importance of sleep and how best to obtain its benefits.
For the second consecutive year, Dr. Mindell, associate professor of psychology and a member of the National Sleep Foundation's pediatric board, will answer telephone calls as part of the USA Today/National Sleep Foundation Sleep Hotline, on March 28. Last year's hotline generated more than 10,000 calls. The hotline phone number, which will be staffed from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., will be published in the March 28 edition of USA Today.
According to NSF's 1999 survey on Americans and sleep, approximately two-thirds of adults report a sleeping problem, and nearly one-quarter of adults acknowledge having fallen asleep while driving. With standard time giving way to daylight-savings time April 2, National Sleep Awareness Week offers an ideal opportunity to focus on sleep issues and make an effort to get more, and better, sleep.
According to Dr. Mindell, the changeover often provides bedtime troubles for children, whose internal clocks are unable to handle the hour's difference as well as adults can.
"With the time change, what used to be 8 o'clock will now be 9 o'clock, so people will put their kids to bed an hour earlier to maintain normal bedtimes," explains Dr. Mindell, the author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep (HarperCollins) as well as the mother of a toddler who sleeps through the night. "The problem is that the kids probably won't be as tired, and may take longer to fall asleep."
In addition to assisting parents with the time change and other children's problems, Dr. Mindell can speak to adult sleep issues. She can be reached directly at 610.660.1806. Further thoughts, adapted from her book, can be found here.
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