SLEEP AND THE TEMPERATURE-FIELD OF THE BED

Citation
W. Bischof et al., SLEEP AND THE TEMPERATURE-FIELD OF THE BED, Journal of thermal biology, 18(5-6), 1993, pp. 393
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Biology Miscellaneous
Journal title
ISSN journal
03064565
Volume
18
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1993
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-4565(1993)18:5-6<393:SATTOT>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
1. In order to find a correlation between the thermal conditions in be d and the quality of sleep, 5 young, healthy persons were tested in a thermal climate chamber. 2. The sleep of each person was thoroughly mo nitored during 5 nights (stages I to IV, REM, awake) with continuous r egistration of 14 temperatures, 12 distributed in the bed, the distal skin temperature and the ambient temperature. 3. Shortly after the tes t persons went to bed and shortly after they woke up their blood press ure and pulse were taken and they were asked to fill in a questionnair e. 4. The results of this pilot project show a correlation between the quality of sleep and the variations of temperature and that larger fl uctuations of temperature in the bed are connected to a shorter deep-s leep time. 5. In order to investigate the thermal comfort it is recomm ended to undertake detailed analyses of the time and exact interplay b etween the local thermal conditions during sleep and changes of the sl eep-EEG.