From Pixels to Pillows: Optimising Screen Use for Healthier Sleep. With increasing screen use at ever-younger ages, parents face pressing challenges in promoting healthy sleep, yet existing screen tim

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From Pixels to Pillows: Optimising Screen Use for Healthier Sleep. With increasing screen use at ever-younger ages, parents face pressing challenges in promoting healthy sleep, yet existing screen time advice misaligns with modern realities. This project aims to investigate how screen use can coexist with healthy sleep in pre-schoolers. Through multidimensional profiling, novel analytics, and mixed methods, it will generate essential evidence to inform practical solutions. Expected outcomes include a novel sleep profile scoring system, identification of screen use profiles that support healthier sleep, and a deeper understanding of how parenting shapes both behaviours. This will pave the way for digital-age strategies, empowering parents to help children achieve the healthy sleep they need to thrive.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4206 - Public Health. Lead: Dr Zhiguang Zhang