养宠物会影响睡眠质量吗
2023-03-21 20:13:02
养宠物会影响睡眠质量
一项研究指出,尽管宠物为人体健康带来很多积极影响,但它们或许和睡眠质量不好有关系。
Though pets can have many positive effects on health, pet ownership was linked with poorer sleep, according to a study.
他们调整了可能影响睡眠的因素,包括种族、收入、年龄、性别和BMI(身体质量指数),并重点关注调查对象是否患有睡眠障碍,以及是否养了猫或狗。
The researchers adjusted for factors that could affect sleep, including race and income, as well as age, gender and BMI, and focused on whether a person had a sleep disorder and whether a person had a cat or a dog.
BMI: Body Mass Index身体质量指数, 是国际上常用的衡量人体胖瘦程度以及是否健康的一个标准。
怎样才算睡眠质量低呢?我们可以参考以下这些表现:
睡眠困难或入睡困难
having trouble sleeping or falling asleep在夜里醒来waking up during the night
起床太早waking up too early
需要药物才能入睡needing medication to sleep
腿部抽搐或痉挛having leg jerks or cramps
入睡时间超过15分钟taking longer than 15 minutes to fall asleep
睡眠时长经常少于6小时regularly getting less than six hours of sleep
The findings showed that having a dog was associated with a greater chance of having a sleep disorder and overall having trouble sleeping, while having a cat was associated with having a higher chance of leg jerks in the night.
其次,如果你家有多只宠物,它们也会相互撺掇捣乱,让你不得安宁。
“The age of the pet has a big influence on whether or not they keep you up at night,” van Egmond said. “If you have multiple pets, they can egg each other on.”
egg on: 撺掇,怂恿
如何与宠物一起睡得更好
那么,我们怎样才能在宠物的陪伴下保证自己的睡眠质量呢?
狗狗对于人睡眠的影响,很大程度上取决于它的品种和所需的活动量。
With dogs, it depends a lot on the breed and the activity level it needs.
Making sure a pet gets plenty of physical activity and mental stimulation during the day can help animals — and their owners — get better rest.
简而言之,就是让你的狗狗在白天“玩累了”。
Unlike dogs, cats tend to have bursts of energy at night.
以下是专家建议:
如果你在猫猫睡觉前和它玩一会儿,它的狩猎本能就会被激活。
If you play with your cat before it was ready for bed, you would activate the cat's hunting instinct.
By being fed after that, your cat would feel that it has successfully hunted its food and was rewarded with a nice meal in return.
图源:视觉中国
Its natural instinct after that was to groom itself and go to sleep.
The new study indicates that pets can influence your sleep, but we have to really take into account that pets are much more than a facilitator or inhibitor of sleep.
它们更是我们家庭的一部分。
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