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Effects of bed climate on sleep quality
Bed climate can be referred to many types of climate such as hot climate, cold climate, air-conditioned
climate, etc. and can be referred to environment on bed such as different mattress on bed, style of bed that affect
sleeping quality.
Sleeping is seen as a natural situation that controlled by the cycle that is naturally control human life like
sleeping, eating and other necessary action needed to be occurred in daily life. Afterward, sleeping is believed that it
helped support immune system and let the body repair itself, meanwhile, it can help human to develop brain
plasticity and mental health [ Trammell and Miller ,2013 and Shochat, Cohen-Zion and Tzischinsky, 2014 as cited in
Cong, Yanfeng, Xiaojun, and Jiaping, 2015]. Therefore, the thermal environment must be appropriate to the human
body and the thermal regulation system of human body so thatit brings to the best thermal sensation. With the results
of the experiment performed by some researchers to define optimal temperature to evoke the best thermal sensation
and comfort condition [Haskell, Palca and Walker, 1981 and Kum, Kim and Park, 2007 as cited in Cong, Yanfeng,
Xiaojun, and Jiaping, 2015] [Kim, Chun and Han, 2006 as cited in Cong, Yanfeng, Xiaojun, and Jiaping, 2015].
Regardless to the role of the bedcover or quilt, the recommend temperature still in the large range, but the bedcover
was still used to keep a development of high bed climate temperature that is significant for maintaining temperature
inside and outside[skin] the body. Generally, human dont cover all the body including head but leave the head, so
that human will experience the different way of thermal environment at the same time, but for different parts of body
[Van Someren, 2006 as cited in Cong, Yanfeng, Xiaojun, and Jiaping, 2015]. As the result , the thermal environment
only cause to the exposed body to e microclimate but the covered part was just indirect influence.
The style and climate is still the large influences that effect on human sleeping quality, but from the fact
that comfort in a bed is a complex phenomenon that contained of feeling and physical properties of the medium
between a mattress and the human body. Human often spend one-third of their life in bed, and these thermal and
physical conditions affects the quality of sleep. When human lacks of sleep and sleep in an incorrect posture in bed,
the vertebral column is not being supported correctly, then it will cause a back-pain or backache, which is one of the
most realistic problems in the nowadays [Hildebrandt, 1995 as cited in Hyunja and Sejin, 2006]. Polysomnographic
measurements are important in estimating the interaction between sleep and anatomy changes [Murali et al., 2003 as
cited in Hyunja and Sejin, 2006]. Due to polysomnographic measurements, the effects from sleeping can be separate
from the effects from rest or laziness of human.
The differences between people who use mattress and not use mattress is people who sleep without
mattress has an increased nervous response [Laird and Miller, 1930 as cited in Hyunja and Sejin, 2006], but other
studies that found out about sleep quality when using mattress that it heavily influenced by something but not
mattress itself as a primary material such as human body pressure etc. [Park et al., 2001 as cited in Hyunja and
Sejin, 2006]. The studies from Barder and Sten (2000), and Peter and Avalino (1998) were found that it has nothing
to do with comfortability and sleep quality, so we can say that previous studies have not provided enough evidences
that make sleep quality differs regard to mattress comfort.
Afterward, people are trying to test on sleep quality that how air temperature can effect comfortability of
people and sleep quality of people by using electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, which will be recorded during the
all-night and in the next morning the tester will test subjects by question them that how they felt during night.
Analysis on the result of experiment show that when room temperature is unstable, the sleep quality is poorer than
the neural temperature room. The return answers were like skin temperatures were increased during the sleeping
period, so it is now clear that human quality of sleeping rely on air temperature not on mattress.
References
Cong S., Yanfeng L.,Xiaojun Z., & Jiaping L., (2015). Investigation of Human Thermal Comfort in Sleeping
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Hyunja L., &Sejin P., (2006). Quantitative effects of mattress types (comfortable vs. uncomfortable) on sleep
quality through polysomnography and skin temperature. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics,
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