SURVEY AS THE WORLD SOCIETY WAS LESS SLEEP
Poor sleep quality has long been a problem for many people around the world.
According to a report from the annual global sleep survey published by The Global Pursuit of Better Sleep Health by Royal Philips, many people only sleep for 6.3 hours on weekdays and 6.6 on weekends, much lower than the recommended time of 8 hours a day.
The survey was conducted to commemorate World Sleep Day which falls every March 15.
The survey itself involved more than 11,000 adults in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea and the United States to reveal attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors related to sleep.
The survey results revealed that the world community is getting less sleep. At the same time, awareness of the effects of sleep on health increases, but good sleep health is even more difficult to obtain.
In addition to sleep deprivation, 62 percent of adults in the global survey described their sleep as ‘somewhat’ or ‘not at all’ good, and nearly half (44 percent) said that their sleep had deteriorated in the past five years.
The impact is then seen in everyday life, when 60 percent experience daytime sleepiness repeatedly throughout the week.
In the Asia-Pacific countries surveyed, stress is the main reason for individuals to wake up at night with 50 percent losing sleep due to worry or pressure.
In addition, other factors that make adults in the Asia-Pacific region awake at night include: their sleeping environment (32 percent), disorders in the form of entertainment such as television, social media (27 percent), health conditions such as pain or breathing problems (23 percent), drink caffeinated drinks or consume certain drugs at bedtime (18 percent), and couples snore (17 percent).
Although there is a need to overcome sleep deprivation, sleep problems are often not a priority.
To get better sleep, 31 percent of respondents in the Asia-Pacific region were willing to learn more about sleep and / or care to improve the quality of their sleep online, and 34 percent were willing to meet a sleep specialist.
But as many as 75 percent of adults have not sought help from medical professionals to address their sleep problems, mainly because of consulting fees (25 percent) and care (30 percent) to be covered.
Though sleep deprivation has long been associated with physical and mental health problems such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, strokes and decreased memory.
Source: msn.com
