Living in deprived areas associated with poorer sleep quality – study

Middle-aged people living in Britain’s deprived areas have poorer sleep quality than those in affluent places, regardless of their personal wealth, research suggests.

In the first large-scale UK study looking into the effects of sleep across the population, psychologists also found that black people reported the worst sleep overall.

In their findings, published in the journal Clocks and Sleep, the researchers said both social deprivation and ethnicity…