Since the people began to attend the mass use of mobile devices began to appear studies and theories that the quality of sleep people were to deteriorate, especially in cases where the use of this technology preceded the moment to close your eyes.
But now comes a study that aims to end this theory, showing that sleep patterns are not so different between people with and without access to technology.
The study released by The Economist was published in the journal Current Biology by Jerome Siegel of the University of California and Gandhi Yetish the University of New Mexico, and aims to reveal whether new technologies have or no influence on the quality of sleep.
To do this, they analyzed 3 populations in level of development preindustrial, particular ethnic group members Hadza of Tanzania, the Ju / ‘hoansi San of southern Africa and the Tsimane of Bolivia. In all, 94 volunteers who agreed to participate in this study. The collected results were later faced with the known results of modern societies.
To these 94 individuals a monitoring various factors was made , including, the time of sleep and body temperature for 1165 days, subject to some common rules of our society, including stay awake for about 3.3 hours after the sun goes down.
One of the results of this study revealed, first, that these people sleep on average 6.5 hours per night less than the registered in industrialized societies, which is 7.5 hours.
These are individuals who make almost no naps, just a few days of winter for a maximum of 1 hour, and never do in the summer. In the end, turns out to be something common to developed societies.
Unlike the population of developed societies, where about 20% suffer from insomnia, this group analyzed showed no signs of this problem.
In fact, conclude that the electricity or new technologies came not cause significant changes in modern populations sleep patterns seems to be a conclusion a bit forced, especially when we look at the issue of insomnia, as there are other studies that link to insomnia increased use of technology before falling asleep.
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