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What Factors Affect the

Amount of Sleep You Get?

Group B5; Sydney, Celeste, and Haley


Our Goal

The main goal for our research, was to find out what factors affect sleep the most. We
want to discover if these factors increase sleep hours or decrease them. We chose to to
focus caffeine usage, physical activity, medication, and stress levels.
Our Questions

- How many hours of sleep do you get per night?


- On average, how many ounces of caffeine do you consume daily?
- How many times do you work out a week?
- When do you workout typically?
- Are you prescribed any medication(s) that affect(s) your sleeping habits?
- How stressed are you on a scale from 1-5?
Sleep Hours by Percentage
- Based on this chart it displays
the amount of sleep the
respondents usually receive
each night. As you can see 6
through 8 hours of sleep is
most common, with 8 hours
being the most common.
Caffeine Usage - Our first focus was
caffeine usage in
respondents.
- 79 of the
respondents were
regular caffeine
consumers while 56
were not.
Average Hours of Sleep by Caffeine Consumed
- This chart displays the average
hours of sleep based on the amount
of caffeine consumed daily by the
respondent

- As you can see, those who


consumed about 0 oz to 20 0z of
caffeine daily, got the most amount
of sleep which was just a little over
7 hours.
Average Hours of Sleep by Workout Time
-The next factor we focused on was
how workouts affect sleep.

- Those who never work out


averaged at the highest with over 7
hours and those who workout in
the morning were a close second.

- Those who prefer to workout at


night, had the lowest average. They
averaged around 6 hours.
Average of Hours of Sleep by Amount of Workout
Times

- Next we looked at how many times the


respondents worked out a week.
- Those who work out 0 times a week, had an
average around 7 1/2 hours and those who
worked out 9+ times a week, averaged at
exactly 6 hours.
Average Hours of Sleep by Medication Intake
- Our next factor was medication intake.
- Some individuals take medicine to help them sleep
while others take medicine that negatively affects their
sleep.
- Respondents who do not take medication to help them
sleep averaged at around 7 hours.
- Respondents who take medication that actually
interferes with their sleep, averaged at 6 ½ hours.
- Respondents who take medication to help them sleep,
actually averaged at the lowest with was barely over 6
hours.
Average Hours of Sleep based of Level of Stress
-Finally we measured the stress levels of the
individuals.

- The stress level with the highest average hour


of sleep was a 2, which was the second lowest
level is stress. Its average hours of sleep was 7.6
hours.

- The stress level with the lowest average of


sleep was a 5, which was “extremely stressed,
the average was about 6.7 hours.
Conclusion

Based on the results, there is no clear answer to what has the biggest effect on a person’s
sleep. The most logical answer to this would be that it is a combination of things that has a
larger effect. We also noticed that the highest average for each factor was around 7 hours
which was not the most common amount of sleep.

We did find, however, that the 8 hours of sleep was the most common with 7 hours being
the next most common.

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