ArticleSleep health2021
The effects of bed sharing on sleep: From partners to pets.
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- Sleep duration and quality trajectories during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: a Canadian nationally representative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Bed Partners' Perspectives and Sleep Quality After Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Dyadic sleep in people with multiple sclerosis and their partners: current research and future directions.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Sources of attitudes towards parent-child co-sleeping and their effects: A systematic scoping review.Family process · 2024Article
- Co-sleeping with pets, stress, and sleep in a nationally-representative sample of United States adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Describing skin health and disease in urban-living Aboriginal children: co-design, development and feasibility testing of the Koolungar Moorditj Healthy Skin pilot project.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- A Preliminary Analysis of Psychiatric Service Dog Placements and Sleep Patterns of Partners of Veterans With PTSD.Anthrozoos · 2024Article
- The influence of service dog partnerships on perceived and objective sleep quality for military veterans with PTSD.Frontiers in sleep · 2024Article
- Characterising Potential Subtypes and Influencing Factors of Sleep Quality in Psychiatric Nurses by Latent Profile Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2024Article
- The association between loneliness, social isolation, and sleep disturbances in older adults: A follow-up study from the Swedish good aging in Skåne project.SAGE open medicine · 2024Article
- Pet Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand: A National Survey of Cat and Dog Owner Practices.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Socio-Ecological Context of Sleep: Gender Differences and Couples' Relationships as Exemplars.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- The development of a scale to assess children's and adolescents' sleep environments.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- The physical home environment and sleep: What matters most for sleep in early childhood.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundBed sharing is common practice across the global population. However, the vast majority of research on bed sharing has focused solely on mother-infant bed sharing.
methodsHere, we provide a holistic review of research on bed sharing. Articles investigating the relationship between bed sharing and sleep were identified in 4 dyad categories: (1) parent and child, (2) couples, (3) siblings, and (4) pet owners and pets. Of interest was whether sleep-promoting factors such as psychological comfort were generalizable across bed-sharing dyads; alternatively, sleep-demoting factors such as movement or heat may be commonalities.
resultsWe found that, across dyad types, in general, subjective reports of sleep quality were better when bed sharing despite generally worse objective measures of sleep.
conclusionsUnderstanding bed sharing is important to treating sleep disturbances, given the prevalence of shared beds. This scoping review points to critical gaps in our understanding of bed sharing that motivate future research.
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