Table 2

Median (interquartile range) amount of sleep during the flights (hours)

Before stopoverAfter stopoverTotal
*Arrived in Australia in the early morning, having left the United Kingdom in the evening.
†Arrived in Australia in the late afternoon, having left the United Kingdom in the morning.
‡Significance of the difference between Groups, Mann-Whitney U tests.
Group 0*5.5 (3.0–7.0)2.5 (1.3–4.5)8.0 (5.6–10.0)
Group 1†1.5 (0.8–2.5)2.8 (1.9–3.0)4.0 (2.0–5.0)
p Value‡0.00020.72<0.0001