Study shows a hospital stay is bad for your sleep

Children sleep an hour less a night in hospitals than in their own beds as they are kept awake on noisy wards, according to new research.

The small study compared the sleep of 40 children and 16 mothers across wards at Southampton Children’s Hospital with that at home.

Children got 63 fewer minutes sleep per night when in hospital, averaging less than seven-and-a-half hours in total, the study found.

Mothers got 73 fewer minutes than normal, averaging six hours and 20 minutes.

The quality of sleep was also poorer when in hospital.