Survey of sleep and activity on daily living

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560020
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Home economics/Human life
• Research Institution: Nara Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Kubo Hiroko 奈良女子大学, 生活環境科学系, 教授 (90186437)
• Research Collaborator: 桂樹 良子 ; 寺嶋 綾 ; 亀ヶ谷 佳純 ; 秋山 佳代 ; 頼田 未来
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 睡眠 / 日常生活 / 脳波計測 / 生活行動 / 高齢者 / 体動 / 小型計測 / 生活実態

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To clarify the sleep of daily life,　the　survey　were　investigated the quality of the sleep 、daily sleeping hours, and daytime sleepiness. In addition, it was analyzed in the living biological point of view also for the elderly people of sleep.
(1)Daily sleep time was six and a half hours in college aged females in weekdays, though　sleep satisfaction was high. However, the impact on sleepiness and fatigue to short sleep during the day in was observed. (2) REM sleep and light sleep reduced at the time of short time's sleep, and a sense of weariness and sleepiness feeling were high. (3) In summer the elderly people had not　only　low sleep efficiency for daily life's sleep, but also awakening time during sleep was long for them which got sleep under the high temperature environment and did not used air conditioner.

Free Research Field

人間工学、住環境工学、建築環境工学