William Atkins
Monday, 02 November 2009 22:40
Science -
Health
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In addition, 35% of the participants had reported working night shifts, and 17% reported having depression.
Before retirement, 22.2% to 24.6% of participants reported having sleep disturbances.
The researchers found that people in retirement had less disturbances of their sleep than people still working.
They also found that the improvement in sleep after retirement was better in men than in women.
It was also significantly better in higher-grade workers (such as those in management jobs) than lower-grade workers.
The researchers also found that workers with
“… high psychological job demands, and people who occasionally or consistently worked night shifts… ” reported much less occurrences of sleep disturbances after retiring than other people. [EurekAlert]
According to the November 1, 2009 EurekAlert article
Study shows that sleep disturbances improve after retirement,
“This study is the first to examine the trajectories in sleep disturbances before and after retirement over an extended time window…. Findings suggest that this general improvement in sleep is likely to result from the removal of work-related demands and stress rather than from actual health benefits of retirement."
The results showed that seven years after retirement, the participants had a 26% lower risk of having disturbed sleep.
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