Participants self -
reported their sleep duration with an item reading: «In a typical 24 h, how many hours of sleep do you get?»
The study group comprised 123 healthy adults with a self -
reported sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours.
Not exact matches
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.
Results show that later
sleep times were associated with more self -
reported minutes sitting, and
sleep timing remained a significant predictor of sedentary minutes after controlling for age and
sleep duration.
A study of 1,788 adult twins is the first to demonstrate a gene by environment interaction between self -
reported habitual
sleep duration and depressive symptoms.
Women
reported longer
sleep durations than men in all countries except Russia and Mexico.
Reports of shorter
sleep duration and lower
sleep quality were both associated with greater Αβ buildup.
The researchers found that
reports of shorter
sleep duration and poorer
sleep quality were associated with a greater β - Amyloid burden, a hallmark of the disease.
Soon afterwards, in 1913, Lewis Terman and Adeline Hocking from Stanford University, California,
reported similar
sleep durations among US school children.
A fascinating side detail noted in the paper was that the
reported overall
sleep duration between the different categories was similar.
Studies have
reported links between depression and
sleep duration.
In people with hyperactivity during
sleep, theanine has been noted to improve
sleep quality, although
sleep latency and
duration are not
reported to be affected [2].
For example, both reduced and increased
sleep duration, as
reported on questionnaires, are linked with hypertension, diabetes, and obesity.
The researchers looked at four
sleep problems: self -
reported difficulty falling or staying asleep, frequent snoring,
sleep duration of less than six hours, and either
sleep apnea or rotating shift work.
New Recommendations from the National
Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor
Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How
Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of
Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World
Report, from
Sleep Medicine August 2014 -
Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More
Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During
Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between
Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less
Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio
Health behaviours included smoking (never, former, current), alcohol intake (none: ≤ 1 unit / weeks, moderate, heavy: ≥ 14 units / week) self -
reported physical activity (vigorous, moderate and non / mild) 40 and
duration of
sleep (5 categories from ≤ 5 hours to ≥ 9 hours / day).
His average
sleep duration was
reported as 7 hours and 45 minutes, but he stated feeling pressured to ensure that his tracker would display at least 8 hours every night.
Unsurprisingly, the ebook reader group
reported feeling less tired in the evening, but they also
reported that they felt more tired in the morning, despite having the same
duration of
sleep as the other group.
According to a research abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional
Sleep Societies participants who reported a habitual daily sleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic synd
Sleep Societies participants who
reported a habitual daily
sleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic synd
sleep duration of eight hours or more including naps were 15 percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome.
Total
sleep duration was
reported by questionnaire.
Although participants who
reported a short
sleep duration of less than six hours were 14 percent more likely to have metabolic syndrome in the initial analysis, this association disappeared after controlling for potential confounders.
A 3 - axis accelerometer in the Misfit Phase tracks steps, distance, and
sleep quality and
duration,
reporting the data via an app on a paired iOS or Android smartphone connected by Bluetooth.
This study aimed to investigate associations between: (a) psychological distress, self - perceived health status and
sleep duration among a large representative general population sample; and (b) patterns of
sleep duration, physical activity and Body Mass Index among a subgroup of participants who self -
reported as being in good health with low psycho
Sleep patterns, duration and parental reports of problems with
Sleep patterns,
duration and parental
reports of problems with
sleepsleep
Associations between well - being and physical well - being may also be subject to confounding by mental health problems such as depression, where
reporting problems with
sleep is a clinical symptom.42 However, the association between
sleep duration and insomnia symptoms remained following adjustment for the GHQ depression scale.