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Estimating Sleep Patterns with Activity Monitoring in Children and Adolescents: How Many Nights Are Necessary for Reliable Measures?
SLEEP · 1999 · Vol. 22(1) · pp. 95–103
Christine Acebo✉(Bradley Hospital)Avi Sadeh(Tel Aviv University)Ronald Seifer(Bradley Hospital)Orna Tzischinsky(Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)Amy R. Wolfson(College of the Holy Cross)Abigail Hafer(Bradley Hospital)Mary A. Carskadon(Bradley Hospital)
Abstract
Five or more nights of usable recordings are required to obtain reliable actigraph measures of sleep for children and adolescents.
Sleep and related disordersSleep and Wakefulness ResearchSleep and Work-Related FatigueActigraphySleep (system call)Reliability (semiconductor)Sleep patternsPsychologyPhysical therapyMedicineClinical psychologyInsomniaPsychiatry
MeSH terms
AdolescentChildChild, PreschoolCircadian RhythmFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleSleepWakefulnessReproducibility of Results
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