The use of screens in bed is worse than you think

Little by little, we are used to looking at the screens in our bed, despite the fact that they are very aware of physical and mental damage. A study published at the beginning of this month described in detail 33% higher than the prevalence of poor sleep quality for people who use electronic devices before bedtime.

Now, another investigation shows that the vision of the screen in bed, insomnia risks increase by 59% in young people and adolescents. In addition, this also consumes our sleep time in 24 minutes. Despite the fact that it bothers in itself, each increase per hour in the activity of the screen further increases the risks of insomnia.

“The results showed that the increase in the screen time in the layer correlates with a greater likelihood of informing the symptoms of insomnia and the lower sleep duration, so each additional hour of the screen was associated with an increase in the risk of insomnia by 24 minutes,” the research article published in the psychiatry of the journal says.

The study was focused on more than 45,000 students in Norway, studying how the use of screens in bed affected their classes in a dream. In addition to the clock and awakening, the participants also shared the details about how long they usually perceived the dream, difficulties with sleep, daytime drowsiness and the stability of their sleep problems.

All these details were used to create a profile of insomnia. Insomnia is defined from a medical point of view as “the difficulty of reconciliation or fall asleep or regularly wake up.” According to the American Academy of Medicine, 12% of US inhabitants suffer from chronic insomnia, while almost a third of the population shows short symptoms.

Social networks are not the only guilty

Social networks often receive criticism for holding us on the screens, serve as endless flooding of content, adjusted for adjusted and deservedly. The result is the death cycle, which often consumes the clock without realizing the lost time. Then there is the health of the social networks themselves, especially their alarming impact on children.

According to experts, there is no direct connection between social networks and how they affect our dream. According to data evaluated by experts, social networks are no more bad than any other screen based on the screen, whether it is installation, streaming, web navigation or any other digital vacation.

“Regardless of the time before the screen, those who used only social networks had the lowest share, which reported the symptoms of insomnia and the longest dream, while those who participated only in other activities in front of the screen had the worst dream,” the research document says.

Nevertheless, this is a reality that applications on social networks are also responsible for the largest number of warnings on smartphones. Although it is possible that they do not force him directly to spend several hours when they see an endless stream of content, the notifications definitely violate their dream or serve as a mental divert.