New Report Combines Survey and Smart Bed Data on Sleep Health

Key takeaways:

• A new report presents data from a national survey alongside complementary data from more than 190 million nights of in-home sleep via smart bed technology.
• The findings show most people are not getting the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep per night.
• The report highlights that sleep quality is undermined by factors like racing minds, physical discomfort, noise, and temperature.

The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) and Tempur-Pedic have released a report that presents data from a national survey of US adults alongside data from millions of nights of in-home sleep.

The report, “Two Views of the Night: Consumer Reported Sleep Insights Paired with Smart Bed Data,” combines the NSF’s nationally representative survey on how people feel about their sleep with complementary data from more than 190 million nights of in-home sleep of people who sleep on Tempur-Pedic beds equipped with Sleeptracker-AI technology.

According to the report, most people can still do better on recommended sleep duration, and the quality and continuity of that sleep are undermined by racing minds, physical discomfort, noise, and temperature. The Sleeptracker-AI data confirm that many people are not sleeping well.

Most sleep research relies on either self-reported data or device data in isolation. The report is distinctive because it presents both views, pairing how people feel about their sleep with sensor-measured sleep across multiple nights.

“Any alignment between lived experiences and tracker data can give us a far more complete and credible picture of the nation’s sleep health and beyond,” says John Lopos, NSF CEO, in a release.

“These findings show that Americans can still do better on getting the recommended amount of sleep, and many are still falling short when it comes to sleep quality,” says Jill Johnson, vice president of the Tempur-Pedic brand, in a release. “Better sleep starts with understanding what is disrupting sleep throughout the night. By analyzing millions of nights of sleep, alongside data from the National Sleep Foundation, we gain insights into the factors that impact sleep quality and use those learnings to design products that help people achieve more restorative sleep.”

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