Sleep differences in the UK between 1974 and 2015: Insights from detailed time diaries.

ABSTRACT: It is often stated that sleep deprivation is on the rise, with work suggested as a main cause. However, the evidence for increasing sleep deprivation comes from surveys using habitual sleep questions. An alternative source of information regarding sleep behaviour is time-use studies. This paper investigates changes in sleep time in the UK using the two British time-use studies that allow measuring "time in bed not asleep" separately from "actual sleep time". Based upon the studies presented here, people in the UK sleep today 43 min more than they did in the 1970s because they go to bed earlier (~30 min) and they wake up later (~15 min). The change in sleep duration is driven by night sleep and it is homogeneously distributed across the week. The former results apply to men and women alike,

SUBMITTER: Lamote de Grignon Perez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6378586 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature