TY - JOUR
T1 - Association of wood use in bedrooms with comfort and sleep among workers in Japan
T2 - a cross-sectional analysis of the SLeep Epidemiology Project at the University of Tsukuba (SLEPT) study
AU - Morita, Emi
AU - Yanagisawa, Masashi
AU - Ishihara, Asuka
AU - Matsumoto, Sumire
AU - Suzuki, Chihiro
AU - Ikeda, Yu
AU - Ishitsuka, Mami
AU - Hori, Daisuke
AU - Doki, Shotaro
AU - Oi, Yuichi
AU - Sasahara, Shinichiro
AU - Matsuzaki, Ichiyo
AU - Satoh, Makoto
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank individuals who participated in the study. The authors also thank Ms. Yuhmi Ito and Mr. Hayahiro Takikawa of MEDIROM Inc.; Dr. Hirokazu Tachikawa and the staff of Tsukuba University Health Center; Ms. Noriko Nakamura, Ms. Emi Sakurai, and Ms. Noriko Fujiwara of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba; Mr. Hiroyuki Koda and the staff of the Health and Safety Office, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK); Ms. Miyoko Kobayashi and the staff of Tsukuba Research Center, KURARAY Co., Ltd., for collecting the data; and Mr. Naruki Teradaira, Mr. Takumi Fukuda, and Mr. Kohei Kawahara at the University of Tsukuba for data management assistance. The authors also thank all volunteers who donated through crowdfunding, and Mr. Tetsuro Hiei, Ms. Yukari Hamaguchi, and Ms. Sara Kobayashi of the Alliance and Communication Team of IIIS, University of Tsukuba, for their support in conducting the crowdfunding.
Funding Information:
This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant (No. 16H03245) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan, and crowdfunding by volunteers. Acknowledgements
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Several priority characteristics of wood that have beneficial effects on human beings have been reported. However, the advantages of wood use in bedroom interiors for sleep have not been fully evaluated. The aim of this cross-sectional epidemiological study was to evaluate the association of wood use in housing and bedrooms with comfort in the bedroom and sleep among workers in Japan. The study methods included sleep measurements using actigraphy and a self-administered questionnaire survey. In total, 671 workers (298 men and 373 women; mean age ± standard deviation: 43.3 ± 11.2 years) were included in the analysis. The amount of wood used in bedrooms was significantly associated with comfort in bedrooms, inversely associated with suspicion of insomnia, partly inversely associated with self-rated poor sleep quality, but not associated with low sleep efficiency. On logistic regression analysis, the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of the “large amount of wood” group relative to the “no wood” group was 3.25 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.63–6.47] for comfort. The aOR of the “no wood” group relative to the “large amount of wood” group was 2.15 (95% CI 1.11–4.16) for suspicion of insomnia. Wood structure of housing, as well as wood use on either the floor, wall, or ceiling, were not significantly associated with comfort and sleep conditions. Our study suggested that the use of a large amount of wood used in the bedroom interior could be beneficial for comfort, sleep, and therefore, health of workers. Further studies are required to obtain generalizable results.
AB - Several priority characteristics of wood that have beneficial effects on human beings have been reported. However, the advantages of wood use in bedroom interiors for sleep have not been fully evaluated. The aim of this cross-sectional epidemiological study was to evaluate the association of wood use in housing and bedrooms with comfort in the bedroom and sleep among workers in Japan. The study methods included sleep measurements using actigraphy and a self-administered questionnaire survey. In total, 671 workers (298 men and 373 women; mean age ± standard deviation: 43.3 ± 11.2 years) were included in the analysis. The amount of wood used in bedrooms was significantly associated with comfort in bedrooms, inversely associated with suspicion of insomnia, partly inversely associated with self-rated poor sleep quality, but not associated with low sleep efficiency. On logistic regression analysis, the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of the “large amount of wood” group relative to the “no wood” group was 3.25 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.63–6.47] for comfort. The aOR of the “no wood” group relative to the “large amount of wood” group was 2.15 (95% CI 1.11–4.16) for suspicion of insomnia. Wood structure of housing, as well as wood use on either the floor, wall, or ceiling, were not significantly associated with comfort and sleep conditions. Our study suggested that the use of a large amount of wood used in the bedroom interior could be beneficial for comfort, sleep, and therefore, health of workers. Further studies are required to obtain generalizable results.
KW - Actigraphy
KW - Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS)
KW - Bedroom
KW - Comfort
KW - Cross-sectional study
KW - Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
KW - Sleep
KW - Wood
KW - Workers
KW - Workers
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U2 - 10.1186/s10086-020-1852-y
DO - 10.1186/s10086-020-1852-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079719697
SN - 1435-0211
VL - 66
JO - Journal of Wood Science
JF - Journal of Wood Science
IS - 1
M1 - 10
ER -