Gewichtsdecken können dazu beitragen, den Schlaf bei Erwachsenen mit Schlaflosigkeit und anderen psychischen Erkrankungen wie Angstzuständen und Depressionen zu verbessern Die Studie ergab, dass die Decken den Schlaf wirksam verbesserten, den Medikamentengebrauch reduzierten und die Stimmung verbesserten.
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From the article: Weighted blankets can help to improve sleep in adults with insomnia and other mental health conditions including anxiety and depression, but results are mixed for children, a new review has found.
Led by occupational therapist and Flinders University researcher Dr Suzanne Dawson, [the study](https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2024.050676) found the blankets were effective in improving sleep, reducing medication use and enhancing mood.
The finding has since been behind a change in state-wide protocols for weighted blanket use across public mental health services in South Australia.
“Sleep is a basic human need and when someone isn’t getting enough, it can lead to numerous health issues as well as increase the risk of, or exacerbate, chronic conditions, including heart disease, stroke, and mental health issues,” says Dr Dawson, from Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute.
“In occupational therapy, weighted blankets are becoming more common amongst many ages as an assistive technology, but no current clinical guidelines exist for their use.”
I suffer from sleep apnea and for me the opposite is true. The lighter the covering the better I sleep.
I found a blanket on Amazon that didn’t have filling, it was just a single piece of thick ass fabric and it weighed eight pounds. I bought three of them, and I’ve been using them for the last five years and I think they actually do help. Definitely cheaper than buying what’s marketed to be a *purpose built weighted blanket*. I paid 150 bucks for all three of my blankets together.
Would die from the heat over here.
Every divorce finalization should come with a weighted blanket
If anything at least it wouldn’t come off of me so easily, sometimes I wake up from the chill with my blanket on the floor
I think it might also have to do with a weighted blanket kinda sorta feeling like you’re being cuddled/held by something
Just get cats, that works for me
Started using them for yoga nidra. Then moved onto sleeping with them. Can’t imagine going back to ordinary duvets. Definitely help with long Covid (dysautonomia) disrupted sleep.
I’ve slept poorly my entire life. In the last year, I started using a weighted blanket and melatonin, and combining several cups of chamomile tea and cannabis every evening. I actually sleep, now! A caution, however – it took a while to realize, but the weighted blanket hurts my feet! I have to remember to pull it up and put something else over them.