Time changes, women charged more than men

If next Sunday the clocks will be put back to an hour back, which means sleeping an hour longer. But not everyone is happy about it, as a recent survey conducted on behalf of the KKH Commercial health insurance shows. Especially women and children, the time change causes problems.

Accordingly, around two-thirds of the women respondents can fall asleep after turning the clock either in the evening, worse at night, worse sleep through the night or do you have problems in the morning to get Up. In the case of the men, only 42 percent experience one or more of these effects. Every fourth woman in addition, due to the time change during the day, irritable, or tired. Of the respondents are men, only one in six struggles with this Problem. So it is not surprising that the vast majority of women sees an advantage in it, when the rotary will be abolished at the clock. 80 percent expect a positive effect for the health.

Except women, children, especially, are affected, such as the KKH survey shows. And also since there are all the mothers watching the effects of the time change to your child. So 57 percent of women say that your child will fall asleep in the evening, has problems. However, this note only 20 percent of men. Every third mother is, moreover, that your child is irritable after the turning on of the clock in the daytime or tired. Among the fathers this has been observed only every Eighth. The results come from a survey conducted by the market research Institute Forsa, which has in the order of the KKH of 1,003 persons in the age from 18 to 70 in the year 2019 interviewed.

In the autumn, the time change for the internal clock is a little more tolerable than in the spring. It is easier to go later to bed and later to rise in the spring, before the usual time and Wake up earlier. Nevertheless the body experiences due to the time change each and every Time a sort of Mini jet lag, brings the internal clock messed up. Follow the time change in the fall can be, despite the gift of an hour, among other things, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and headache.

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