The French and sleep
Tuesday 18 March 2008
Nearly one in two French complains of not enough sleep, according to a study published Monday 10 March 2008.
12% of the population aged 25 to 45 years would be insomniac (with a poor quality of sleep), 17% each night accumulate a significant amount of debt of sleep (too little) and 71% would have adequate sleep.
Yet 45% of respondents felt less sleep than they need. An adult requires six to ten hours of sleep per night, said the INPE (National Institute for Prevention and Health Education), sponsor of this BVA survey published a few days of the National Day of sleep on 19 March .
People suffering from insomnia sleep approximately 40 minutes less than the average people who have adequate sleep (6:41 instead of 7:21), 5:48 against those in sleep debt.
A quarter of respondents do not feel rested when they wake up in the morning (58% in insomniacs).
The work is cited as the primary cause of lack of sleep (53%), followed by psychological problems (40%) and children (27%), recreation (21%) and transport time (17%).
13% of French products take to help them sleep, the majority of psychotropic drugs.
(BVA survey conducted by telephone from 13 to 22 December 2007 among a sample of 1004 people aged 25 to 45 years).