ReviewSleep medicine reviews2012
Use of actigraphy for assessment in pediatric sleep research.
Review in Sleep medicine reviews, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 307 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
307 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Wearable-Sensor-Based Physical Activity and Sleep in Children with Down Syndrome Aged 0-5 Years: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Adherence to Actigraphic Devices in Elementary School-Aged Children: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
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- The Validity, Reliability, and Feasibility of Measurement Tools Used to Assess Sleep of Pre-school Aged Children: A Systematic Rapid Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
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- Does Delivery Mode Matter? A Randomised Controlled Trial of the Sleeping Sound Intervention: Predicting Sleep Outcomes in Children With ADHD.Journal of attention disorders · 2026Trial
- Bedsharing sleep characteristics in children with mild sleep-disordered breathing.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Trial
- Morning vs. evening growth hormone injections and their impact on sleep-wake patterns and daytime alertness.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Trial
- Effects of caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity on sleep and neurodevelopment of preterm infants at 6 months of corrected age.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Trial
- Validity of an algorithm for determining sleep/wake states using FS-760 in school-aged children.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2022Trial
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- Family-based treatment of children with severe obesity in a public healthcare setting: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Clinical obesity · 2022Trial
- Earlier bedtimes and more sleep displace sedentary behavior but not moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in adolescents.Sleep health · 2022Trial
- Waking up to sleep's role in obesity and blood pressure among Black adolescent girls in low-income, US urban communities: A longitudinal analysis.Sleep health · 2022Trial
- Sleep duration and problem behaviour in 8-year-old children in the Childhood Obesity Project.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Developmental effects on sleep-wake patterns in infants receiving a cow's milk-based infant formula with an added prebiotic blend: a Randomized Controlled Trial.Pediatric research · 2021Trial
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- Behavioral interventions for infant sleep problems: the role of parental cry tolerance and sleep-related cognitions.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Trial
- Objective sleep and physical activity using 24-hour ankle-worn accelerometry among toddlers from low-income families.Sleep health · 2019Trial
247 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors.
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Abstract
The use of actigraphs, or ambulatory devices that estimate sleep-wake patterns from activity levels, has become common in pediatric research. Actigraphy provides a more objective measure than parent-report, and has gained popularity due to its ability to measure sleep-wake patterns for extended periods of time in the child's natural environment. The purpose of this review is: 1) to provide comprehensive information on the historic and current uses of actigraphy in pediatric sleep research; 2) to review how actigraphy has been validated among pediatric populations; and 3) offer recommendations for methodological areas that should be included in all studies that utilize actigraphy, including the definition and scoring of variables commonly reported. The poor specificity to detect wake after sleep onset was consistently noted across devices and age groups, thus raising concerns about what is an "acceptable" level of specificity for actigraphy. Other notable findings from this review include the lack of standard scoring rules or variable definitions. Suggestions for the use and reporting of actigraphy in pediatric research are provided.
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