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March 17, 2023 | 3:41pm
A brand-new research study has actually revealed that individuals with dogs are most likely to struggle with a sleep condition. Cat ownership was likewise connected with sleep concerns, however not to the level that dog owners experience.
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A brand-new research study released in the journal Human-Animal Interactions has actually revealed that individuals with dogs are most likely to struggle with a sleep condition. Cat ownership was likewise connected with sleep concerns, however not to the level that dog owners experience.
Researchers acknowledged that while animals might have a peaceful result on their owners throughout the daytime, they were eventually harmful to total sleep quality.
“On the one hand, dogs and cats may be beneficial for an owner’s quality of sleep due to the social support that pets provide,” said Dr. Lauren Wisnieski, who led the research study, in a declaration. “Pets offer a sense of security and companionship, which may result in improvements in levels of anxiety, stress and depression. Yet, on the other hand, pets may disrupt their owners’ sleep.”
Scientists from Lincoln Memorial University represented research study individuals’ sleep health history, keeping in mind aspects such as snoring, abrupt awakening, the requirement for sleeping tablets, feeling unrested or drowsy, taking longer than 15 minutes to drop off to sleep and getting less than approximately 6 hours of sleep.
Scientists from Lincoln Memorial University concentrated on pet ownership in the United States, taking a look at information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005 to 2006.
Around 5,500 individuals were analyzed — 51.7% female and 48.3% male.
Compared to those without animals, dog owners were revealed to have more concerns with sleeping, consisting of sleep conditions, sleep apnea, feeling unrested or drowsy, requiring tablets to drop off to sleep, getting insufficient (less than 6 hours) sleep during the night and leg twitching.
Meanwhile, cat ownership was most likely to induce snoring, difficulty falling and remaining sleeping and leg jerks.
The distinctions in sleep quality were more severe in between dog owners and non-dog owners compared to cat owners and non-cat owners, perhaps due to cats being more active during the night, scientists assumed.
Wisniesky included that the link in between sleep and keeping animals requires more research study, which might notify how clinicians deal with clients with low sleep quality and help professionals establish academic resources on such health threats of pet ownership.
She said possible options consist of crating your animal or restricting its access to the bed room during the night.
“In the future, studies would benefit from measuring the human-animal bond, so that we can understand how the strength of [their relationship] affects quality of sleep,” Wisniesky said.
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