The purpose of this Bachelor’s thesis was to improve sleep disorder knowledge, strengthen the know-how of the school healthcare nurses and to summarize the already existing information given by the previous studies and literature of sleep disorders in children and adolescents. Part of the thesis was the creation process of the two sleep disorder screening forms, one for primary school aged children and one for upper comprehensive school aged adolescents. A sleep diary was also created as a part of the process.

Sleep disorders with school aged children and adolescents are a rapidly increasing problem. The problem needs concrete recognizing tools. Increasing screen time and sportive passivity can affect children’s and adolescent’s sleep. In this work the two created sleep disorder screening forms were designed to help the school nurses with the recognizing of the sleep disorders in school aged children and adolescents. The literature of this thesis was the basis in the creation of the forms.

The nurses from Ylöjärvi area participated in a feedback survey and gave their opinions about the created sleep disorder screening forms. The participants thought that the sleep subject was very important and that the screening forms for sleep disorders were necessary. Based on the results from the feedback survey the forms were improved. Final versions are presented at the end of this thesis.

In the future it would be important to study sleep apnea among children and adolescents, because in Finland it is still underdiagnosed among the age group mentioned.