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Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines (sleep component)

Also: Build Your Best Day! · Sweat, Step, Sleep and Sit

World-first integrated guidelines (children and youth 2016; early years 2017; adults 2020) that pair sleep targets (9-11 h ages 5-13; 8-10 h ages 14-17; 7-9 h adults) with activity and screen limits, launched with ParticipACTION report cards and knowledge-translation tools such as the Build Your Best Day website.

Years
2016–now
Country
Canada
Topic
Physical activitySleep
Asks people to
Start
Strategy
Simple instruction
Channel
Social (organic)Website
Audience
General publicParents
Parents, youth, adults, practitioners

Evidence

ProcessUnknown

Adult guideline launch reached ~11.9 million but only 31.9% of adults were aware and 1.6% knowledgeable at 12 months; 11.9% of parents of young children were familiar with the early-years guidelines; BYBD website test with 11 parents/17 youth improved youth understanding.

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) NGO
  • ParticipACTION NGO
  • Public Health Agency of Canada Foreign government
  • CHEO Research Institute (HALO) Academic

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Sources

  1. Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines (sleep component) (official page) sponsor
  2. The longitudinal evaluation of the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults: lessons learned evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1139/apnm-2024-0348 · PMID 39968838
  3. Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep knowledge and self-efficacy among parents of young children in Canada evaluation · 2024 · DOI 10.1186/s44167-024-00051-x · PMID 38764474
  4. Building Your Best Day: Disseminating the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth via an Interactive Website evaluation · 2026 · DOI 10.1111/cch.70186 · PMID 41316725
  5. The integration of pediatric sleep health into public health in Canada reference · 2018 · DOI 10.1016/j.sleep.2018.06.009 · PMID 30076116
  6. 24 Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth (Government of Canada) sponsor

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Sleep hour figures from secondary web summaries; check CSEP documents. Sponsor list partly inferred (HALO/CHEO led development per literature); verify.

Record cases/ca-24-hour-movement-guidelines.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign