thensf.orgSleep Awareness Week
Also: National Sleep Awareness Week
The US National Sleep Foundation's annual awareness week in March, running since the late 1990s and promoted in CDC's MMWR. It publishes recommended sleep hours by age and has carried drowsy driving messages.
- Years
- 1998–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- Sleep
- Asks people to
- Start
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- EventsPrintWebsite
- Audience
- General public
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No outcome evaluation found. MMWR announcements (2000, 2008, 2013, 2017) cite that about 28% of US adults reported frequent insufficient sleep. A 2008 commentary questioned whether the week speaks to people who cannot sleep.
Sponsor (who paid)
- National Sleep Foundation NGO, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- World Sleep Day 2008–now
- Drowsy Driving Prevention Week 2007–now
Sources
- PUT DROWSY DRIVING TO REST history · 1998
- National Sleep Awareness Week 2000 reference · 2000 · DOI 10.1097/00006565-200002000-00018
- Announcement: Sleep Awareness Week, April 23–29, 2017 reference · 2017 · DOI 10.15585/mmwr.mm6615a6 · PMID 28426640
- A Bedtime Story reference · 2008
Research notes
Start year: a 1998 article says national funding from Reader's Digest 'sparked' the week; it may be older. Confirm. Found through OpenAlex (October 2026 sleep pass, see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md). Findings paraphrased from abstracts; check the paper before quoting a number.
Record cases/nsf-sleep-awareness-week.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign