01/11/2018

Report: Insomnia Common for Heavy Business Travelers

Issues of insomnia, anxiety and alcohol dependence are common among business travelers

Frequent business travel is known to cause stress for many road warriors, but the nature of the issues created by the practice might even keep you up at night. Literally.

A new report, published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York, found that people who travel two weeks or more a month were more likely to report trouble sleeping than the average American. Additionally, those who travel heavily are more likely to be susceptible to unhealthy habits like smoking, staying sedentary, and alcohol dependence.

“Poor behavioral and mental health outcomes significantly increased as the number of nights away from home for business travel rose,” stated a news release on the report, one of the first travel studies focused on health issues not related to infectious diseases.

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