Sentences with phrase «percent fell asleep»

According to a 2007 survey of 12 to 16 year - olds, 25 percent fell asleep with the TV, computer, stereo, iPod headphones or other electronic gadgets on.

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The best way to conquer sleeplessness is by consistency, said Weissbluth, who estimated that about 20 percent of all children have difficulty falling asleep.

Eighty to 90 percent of children who learn to fall asleep naturally at bedtime will be sleeping through the night within the week.

Forty newborns were studied, and it was found that 80 percent were able to fall asleep after five minutes of hearing white noise.

Twenty - nine percent of children 2 to 3 years of age have a television in their bedroom, and 30 % of parents have reported that watching a television program enabled their children to fall asleep.3 Although parents perceive a televised program to be a calming sleep aid, some programs actually increase bedtime resistance, delay the onset of sleep, cause anxiety about falling asleep, and shorten sleep duration.41 Specifically, in children younger than 3 years, television viewing is associated with irregular sleep schedules.42 Poor sleep habits have adverse effects on mood, behavior, and learning.

One study found that 44 percent of mothers who nurse in those places at night fell asleep there at least once.

Fifteen percent of the poll respondents said they had trouble falling asleep three or more nights a week.

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, chronic insomnia, which affects as many as 10 percent of adults, involves ongoing difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep — or regularly waking up earlier than desired — despite an adequate opportunity for sleep.

In 2014 the same organization determined that 89 percent of adults and 75 percent of children in the U.S. have at least one electronic device in their bedroom, with a significant number of them sending or answering texts after they had initially fallen asleep.

One of the most dangerous aspects of drowsy or fatigued drivers is that although 37 percent of them admit to having fallen asleep behind the wheel, research shows drivers are very poor at gauging their sleepiness before being involved in an accident.

Using the Actiwatch and nightly logs, Lauderdale and colleagues recorded how long people spent in bed (on average, 7.5 hours), how long it took them to fall asleep (22 minutes), how long they slept (6.1 hours), and their total sleep «efficiency» — time asleep divided by time in bed (81 percent).

During a full moon, study subjects took longer to fall asleep, had diminished levels of the sleep - inducing hormone melatonin, and brain activity related to deep sleep dropped by 30 percent.

We all know what it feels like to toss and turn throughout the night but for nearly 10 percent of Americans, insomnia is a chronic problem — lasting a month or longer, and characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep.

Insomnia is the most common, with up to 80 percent of cancer patients having difficulty falling and / or staying asleep.

In fact, as many as 20 percent of Americans use alcohol to help them fall asleep.

Dating site for night shift workers, 50 percent of night - shift workers report falling asleep.

According to a November 2014 study by the AAA, 37 percent of drivers report having fallen asleep while driving at some point in their lives, with 11 percent having done so in the past year.

o 31 percent of respondents noted that a partner's use of a light to read in bed interfered with their sleep or prevented them from falling asleep, while 20 percent noted that romantic overtures did the same.

However, they enter REM sleep much sooner (about 10 minutes after first falling asleep compared to 90 minutes in humans), and they spend only 10 percent of their total sleep time in REM, since their sleep is often interrupted by activity or noise.

Psychology Today reports that study participants fell asleep more quickly, with a decrease in falling - asleep time of 35.4 percent.

Nearly four percent of fatal crashes and hundreds of crashes resulting in injury involve sleepy drivers or drivers that have fallen asleep behind the wheel.

Among the 65 + group of survey respondents, only 1.7 percent said they had fallen asleep as they were driving.

Over 5 percent of survey respondents in this age group reported falling asleep or nodding off while driving at least once in the prior month.

When taking the average of all drivers, 4.2 percent said that in the month before they were surveyed, they'd fallen asleep while driving.

Four percent (11 million drivers) say they have been involved in a car collision, or nearly had a collision because they fell asleep while driving.

Of those drivers who fell asleep, 13 percent said they had done so at least once a month.

Four percent of those people polled admitted to having had an accident or near accident due to drowsy driving or falling asleep behind the wheel.

The study shows that 20 percent of all the drivers have fallen asleep at some point while operating a moving vehicle.