Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Can Weighted Blankets Ease Stress & Anxiety

8 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Wendie Trubow discusses whether weighted blankets reduce anxiety. A university study of 90 college students found statistically significant anxiety drops when students used weighted blankets for two hours daily, compared to a control group.

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90 students.

A graduate student affiliated with a university (described as informal).

Approximately two hours per day (daytime use).

Control group and experimental group (daytime weighted-blanket intervention).

A statistically significant improvement in anxiety among students using the weighted blanket.

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Is there any other way that they help with mental wellness, overall wellness, not just sleep?
Yes. So we also participated. I would say this was an informal study with the university, but by graduate student. They had 90 students participate in this study to measure the impact on anxiety with weighted blankets. And they didn't use the blankets at night. The participants using the blankets during the day for two hours per day. So they were in a control group and experimental group and found a statistically significant improvement in the level of anxiety amongst the college students using the weighted blanket, which was really surprising and great to hear because I didn't know what to expect with daytime use. But I would say that anxiety and sleep are also closely linked to.