What helps us fall asleep better?

Nearly all the subjects (99.5%) in a thorough JYSK European survey agree that good sleep is crucial to the quality of their lives. Still, nearly a fourth (23.3%) said that they slept very badly, the company announced on its website.

The survey encompassed over 35,000 people from 19 European countries and was carried out this July.

Eight-hour sleep is optimal

When it comes to the amount of sleep, most subjects (44.7%) agree that an eight-hour sleep is optimal. On the other hand, only a few (15%) actually get enough sleep during work days. On weekends, 26.6% of those surveyed manage to sleep for eight hours in a day.

The lack of sleep may be the reason why one in ten people (13.3%) always feel sleepy or tired during the day. It could also explain why a large number of subjects (42.6%) sometimes sleep in the afternoon.

Fetal position the most popular

Two out of three subjects (66.9%) wake up once or several times during the night. A majority of them (60.7%) wake up because they have to go to the toilet. One in three (33.6%) awake because they are either too hot or too cold, and one in five (22%) wake up because of an unpleasant sensation somewhere on the body.

The most common sleeping position is on the side, in a fetal position (48%). It is followed by sleeping on one's stomach (40%), whereas other subjects expressed preference for sleeping on their backs.

What's important for a good night sleep?

There are several factors that influence the quality of sleep, and the subjects highlighted as the most important factors how comfortable the mattress (95%) and the pillow (94%) are. Other important factors are the ideal room temperature (91%), clean sheets (84%), a comfortable cover (80%), silence (73%) and a dark environment (62%).

The results of the survey show that many subjects experience sleep-related problems. Each fourth (25.6%) has trouble falling asleep easily and only under a half of the subjects (45%) fall asleep without a problem. Almost each third person (29.6%) had trouble falling asleep for three or more nights in the week preceding the survey.

Also, around a third of the subjects (37.4%) had trouble getting up, and nearly a fourth of them (23.9%) say that they are in a bad mood immediately after getting up.

Nearly a third (29.1%) say that they are morning types, and barely a fifth (17.6%) say that they are happy when they wake up.

Nearly four out of ten subjects (38.9%) said that they always used their smartphones or watched TV in bed before falling asleep, with only 9.34% saying that they never did so, JYSK writes on their website.

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