National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic.
National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic.
Soc Sci Med. 2019 Feb;222:112-121. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.12.024. Epub 2018 Dec 22.
Personal well-being, including people's sleep characteristics, is affected by a variety of factors, one example of which is wide-ranging high-impact public events. In this study, we use a large sleep database obtained through a smartphone application for sleep tracking via anonymized time-sampled data to study the effect of two political events with a wide-ranging impact on people's sleep characteristics: the Brexit referendum in June 2016, and the presidential election of Donald Trump in November 2016 METHOD: Using Sleep as Android - an actigraphy-based sleep monitoring smartphone application - we collected 10.5 million geo-located sleep records from more than 69,000 users in Europe and North America. Population-based changes in sleep around each of these two events, in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America, were assessed using a non-parametric bootstrap test RESULTS: The analysis revealed a significant reduction by 16 min and 21 s in the mean sleep duration of British people in the night after the Brexit poll (p < 0.001). Similarly, the analysis of the US presidential election revealed a significant 12 min 49 s drop in the mean sleep duration during the night following the event, in comparison with the whole studied region (p < 0.001), and an increase by 5 min and 9 s in the subsequent night (p = 0.0328). Additional analysis comparing the election night to comparable days in preceding years revealed that the actual reduction in sleep length may have been even greater. There is also an increase in the proportion of subjects with very short sleep CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate a significant impact of two specific major political events on population sleep characteristics. Our results further underline the potential of mobile applications and informatics approaches in general to provide data that enable us to investigate fundamental physiological variables over time and location.
个人幸福感包括人们的睡眠特征，受到多种因素的影响，其中一个例子是广泛的高影响力的公共事件。在这项研究中，我们使用通过智能手机应用程序通过匿名时间采样数据进行睡眠跟踪获得的大型睡眠数据库，研究对人们的睡眠特征产生广泛影响的两个政治事件的影响：2016 年 6 月的英国脱欧公投和 2016 年 11 月唐纳德特朗普的总统选举。方法：使用 Sleep as Android-一种基于动作的睡眠监测智能手机应用程序-我们从欧洲和北美的 69,000 多名用户中收集了 1050 万条具有地理位置的睡眠记录。使用非参数自举检验评估了这两个事件在英国和美国的人口睡眠变化。结果：分析表明，在英国脱欧公投后的晚上，英国人的平均睡眠时间减少了 16 分钟 21 秒（p <0.001）。同样，对美国总统选举的分析表明，与整个研究区域相比，在事件发生后的晚上，平均睡眠时间显着下降了 12 分钟 49 秒（p <0.001），而随后的晚上则增加了 5 分钟 9 秒（p = 0.0328）。比较选举之夜与前几年可比日的额外分析表明，实际的睡眠时间减少可能更大。也有更多的研究对象的睡眠时间非常短。结论：结果表明，两个特定的重大政治事件对人口睡眠特征产生了重大影响。我们的研究结果进一步强调了移动应用程序和一般信息学方法的潜力，这些方法可以提供数据，使我们能够调查随时间和地点变化的基本生理变量。
