Studies are scarce, but experts still recommend them wholeheartedly.
At least in the US, they’re also increasingly used in places like psychiatric wards, where they’re used as an alternative to other, more traditional methods such as medication or physical restraints.
“I watched people who were going to be put into restraints not have to be put into restraints because we offered them the blankets first,” saysKathryn Eron, a mental health researcher at Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado, says that their mental health facilities have been using blankets as an alternative to medication.
Stories like that have inspired researchers to begin investigating the effects of weighted blankets in a more methodical way.There’s a lot of anecdotes in favor of weighted blankets, but only in the last decade or so have researchers become more interested in examining how well they actually work. From that small but growing volume of research,Becklund and two researchers from Saint Leo University in Florida investigated if weighted blankets helped with anxiety in psychiatric patients.
But other research gives more muddied results. A 2013 study in the United Kingdom, investigating whether weighted blankets help children with autism sleep better,
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