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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Adequate sleep among adolescents is positively associated with health status and health-related behaviors 1 2 1 Mei-Yen Chen* , Edward K Wang and Yi-Jong Jeng Address: 1Nursing Department, Chang Gung Institute of Technology, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan, Taiwan and 2Neurology Department, Tao-Yuan Veteran Hospital, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan, Taiwan Email: Mei-Yen Chen* - meiyen@.tw; Edward K Wang - mymcwang@.tw; Yi-Jong Jeng - yjjeng@.tw * Corresponding author Published: 08 March 2006 Received: 11 December 2005 Accepted: 08 March 2006 BMC Public Health2006, 6:59 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-59 This article is available from: /1471-2458/6/59 © 2006Chen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Amount of sleep is an important indicator of health and well-being in children and adolescents. Adequate sleep (AS: adequate sleep is defined as 6–8 hours per night regularly) is a critical factor in adolescent health and health-related behaviors. The present study was based on a health promotion project previously conducted on adolescents in Tao-Yuan County, Taiwan. The aim was to examine th