The majority of people in Austria hardly get enough sleep, with an average of seven hours of sleep per night. Men in particular suffer from the high temperatures that disturb their sleep (60.1 percent). Women, on the other hand, increasingly complain about worries and brooding (53 percent) and snoring (36.4 percent).
The research* shows that sleep quality can be significantly improved. The hot summer has made it difficult for many people to sleep: almost 70 percent say they sleep worse during tropical nights. More than a fifth of respondents say they sleep poorly to very poorly in general.
Wake up briefly every night, up to 30 times
“When people subjectively say they sleep seven hours a night, it is often not just bedtime, but rather bedtime – because the short waking phases that everyone has at night are not even perceived as such,” says sleep researcher Manuel Schabus from Salzburg. Many people wake up briefly up to 30 times a night, which often shortens their net sleep time by 20 to 40 minutes.
Men sleep better after cuddling and sex
Falling asleep is easy for more than half of the respondents, but difficult for almost one in three (27 percent). People sleep best on vacation (35 percent), after a strenuous day at work (34.7 percent) or after sports (31.4 percent). 29.2 percent of men say they slept very well after being intimate with their partner (women: 16.8 percent).
Heat, worries and noise rob us of our sleep
The most common negative influencing factors are too high temperatures (56.7 percent), worry and anxiety (47.6 percent) and noise (31.7 percent). In addition, household chores and family responsibilities affect the quality of sleep for more than half (56.4 percent) of women and 40.7 percent of men.
Twelve percent eat in bed
The most popular activities in the bedroom outside of bedtime were intimacy (54.7 percent), reading (45.4 percent), smartphone (43.6 percent), watching TV (36.4 percent) and listening to music (27.8 percent). More than twelve percent also say they often eat in the bedroom. Only 10.4 percent use their bed exclusively for sleeping.
80 percent said they slept with the window open all year round or at least during the warmer months. Two-thirds changed their bed linen at least every two weeks.
*For the IKEA sleep survey ‘This is how Austria sleeps’, Marketagent interviewed 3,025 people between the ages of 18 and 75 in June and July.
Source: Krone
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