Research: Spending time in front of the screen before sleep affects the quality of sleep – Cyprus Newspaper
People who had time in front of the screen in the bed before sleep, insomnia and sleep loss was found to be higher.
In the study, which covers more than 45 thousand 200 students in the 18-28 age group in Norway, the connection between the time spent in front of the screen before sleep was questioned.
The participants were asked to identify activities at the screen, including movies, use of social media, and play on the internet after entering bed.
As a result of the research, those who spent time looking at the screen in the bed before sleep, insomnia and loss of sleep was found to be higher.
Each hour spent on the bed and at the screen was found to be “59 percent increase in insomnia and linked to sleep less than 24 minutes”.
From Norway Public Health Institute. Gunnhild Johnsen Hjetland led the details of the research, « Frontiers » was published yesterday in the International Journal of Science.
« He steals the quality of your sleep »
Joshua Piper, a sleeping clinician from the establishment of “Picture UK”, said in a statement to the BBC that the use of electronic devices has “increasing evidence that the use of electronic devices adversely affects sleep adversely”.
Piper (device use) is playing both the opportunity and the quality of your sleep, so some have difficulty in falling asleep, while others have difficulty staying asleep. ” He said.
