Results of the study „swinging sleep“
at the University Osnabrück

“Treatment of psychogenic insomnia with the help of psycho physiological sleeping aids”

Head: Dr. Wölk

Summary

1. Subjective sleep quality on swinging systems

Felt recreation:
improvement of 25% from 2,95 to 3,75 (scale from 1-6)

2. Objective sleep quality on swinging systems

Time to fall asleep:
All test persons could reduce it up to 8%, sleepers reacting positively to swinging sleep up to 43%.
7 out of 10 test persons fall asleep faster.

Net sleep duration:
Improvement of 7% with all and 25% with sleepers who react positively to swinging sleep.

Total sleep duration:
9 of 10 test sleepers have a longer total sleep duration

• Increase of deep sleep shares.
• Reduction of sleep phases per hour.
• Reduction of arousals (increased wake up reactions of the body) during the night.
• Reduction of micro arousals in the deep sleep phases to 25% that means the deep sleep is less disturbed.

The total time spent in bed is increased to 13%.

3. Conclusion of all measured results

In 70% of all cases, swinging sleep improves the sleep objectively. Almost all test sleepers report an improved recreation of swinging sleep. The improvement is reached after 2-3 weeks and stabilizes after 5-6 weeks.