Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To understand gender differences in sleep quality, architecture and duration of young healthy couples in comparison to older couples in their natural sleep environment. DESIGN: Sleep was monitored in a naturalistic setting using a headband sleep monitoring device over a period of t...
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Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
2021
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| author | Butt, Maryam Quan, Stuart Pentland, Alex Sandy L Khaya, Inas |
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| description | STUDY OBJECTIVES: To understand gender differences in sleep quality, architecture and duration of young healthy couples in comparison to older couples in their natural sleep environment. DESIGN: Sleep was monitored in a naturalistic setting using a headband sleep monitoring device over a period of two weeks for young couples and home polysomnography for the older couples. PARTICIPANTS: Ten heterosexual young couples (male mean age: 28.2+/-1.0[SD] years/female mean age: 26.8+/-0.9 years) and 14 older couples (male mean age: 59.3+/-9.6 years/female mean age: 58.8+/-9.1 years). MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: In the young couples, total sleep time (395+/-66 vs. 367+/-54 min., p<0.05), sleep efficiency (97.0+/-3.0 vs. 91.1+/-7.9, p<0.001), and % REM (31.1+/-4.8 vs. 23.6+/-5.5, p<0.001) in males was higher than in females. In contrast, % light sleep (51.7+/-7.1 vs. 59.7+/-6.7, p<0.001) and number of arousals (2.9+/-1.9 vs. 5.3+/-1.9, p<0.001) were lower. These differences persisted after controlling for evening mood and various evening pre-sleep activities. In the older couples, there were no differences between genders. In addition, children in the household adversely impacted sleep. CONCLUSIONS: In couples recorded in the home, young males slept longer and had better sleep quality than young females. This difference appears to dissipate with age. In-home assessment of couples can aid in understanding of gender differences in sleep and how they are affected by age and social environment. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1342782023-02-17T15:26:37Z Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples Butt, Maryam Quan, Stuart Pentland, Alex Sandy L Khaya, Inas Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory STUDY OBJECTIVES: To understand gender differences in sleep quality, architecture and duration of young healthy couples in comparison to older couples in their natural sleep environment. DESIGN: Sleep was monitored in a naturalistic setting using a headband sleep monitoring device over a period of two weeks for young couples and home polysomnography for the older couples. PARTICIPANTS: Ten heterosexual young couples (male mean age: 28.2+/-1.0[SD] years/female mean age: 26.8+/-0.9 years) and 14 older couples (male mean age: 59.3+/-9.6 years/female mean age: 58.8+/-9.1 years). MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: In the young couples, total sleep time (395+/-66 vs. 367+/-54 min., p<0.05), sleep efficiency (97.0+/-3.0 vs. 91.1+/-7.9, p<0.001), and % REM (31.1+/-4.8 vs. 23.6+/-5.5, p<0.001) in males was higher than in females. In contrast, % light sleep (51.7+/-7.1 vs. 59.7+/-6.7, p<0.001) and number of arousals (2.9+/-1.9 vs. 5.3+/-1.9, p<0.001) were lower. These differences persisted after controlling for evening mood and various evening pre-sleep activities. In the older couples, there were no differences between genders. In addition, children in the household adversely impacted sleep. CONCLUSIONS: In couples recorded in the home, young males slept longer and had better sleep quality than young females. This difference appears to dissipate with age. In-home assessment of couples can aid in understanding of gender differences in sleep and how they are affected by age and social environment. 2021-10-27T20:04:17Z 2021-10-27T20:04:17Z 2015 2019-07-26T15:09:51Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134278 Butt, M., et al. "Gender Differences in Real-Home Sleep of Young and Older Couples." Southwest J Pulm Crit Care 10 5 (2015): 289-99. en 10.13175/SWJPCC068-15 Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care PMC |
| spellingShingle | Butt, Maryam Quan, Stuart Pentland, Alex Sandy L Khaya, Inas Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples |
| title | Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples |
| title_full | Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples |
| title_fullStr | Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples |
| title_short | Gender differences in real-home sleep of young and older couples |
| title_sort | gender differences in real home sleep of young and older couples |
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