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Article: Happily married women report less insomnia.(Adult Pschyiatry)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- August 1, 2008
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BALTIMORE--Women who are happily married in midlife report fewer sleep problems than unhappily married or unmarried women, based on data from nearly 3,000 women.
Previous studies have shown that married people, especially women, consistently report less insomnia, compared with their single or divorced counterparts, said Wendy M. Troxel, Ph.D., a psychologist in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. But her study aimed to take a "more nuanced approach to the subject of marriage and insomnia risk by asking whether unhappily or unmarried women are at greater risk for having insomnia symptoms [when compared with] happily married women," said ...