An open request to epidemiologists: please stop querying self-reported sleep duration.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Estimation bias and agreement limits between two common self-report methods of habitual sleep duration in epidemiological surveys.Scientific reports · 2024
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2. Social dimensions impact individual sleep quantity and quality.Scientific reports · 2023
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3. Temporal changes in self-reported sleep quality, sleep duration and sleep medication use in relation to temporal changes in quality of life and work ability over a 1-year period among Finnish municipal employees.Journal of sleep research · 2022
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4. Self-reported sleep duration and timing: A methodological review of event definitions, context, and timeframe of related questions.Sleep epidemiology · 2021
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5. Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults.Nature human behaviour · 2021
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6. Home-EEG assessment of possible compensatory mechanisms for sleep disruption in highly irregular shift workers - The ANCHOR study.PloS one · 2020
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7. Cumulative Childhood Lead Levels in Relation to Sleep During Adolescence.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2019
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8. Genome-wide association study identifies genetic loci for self-reported habitual sleep duration supported by accelerometer-derived estimates.Nature communications · 2019
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9. Polygenic risk score identifies associations between sleep duration and diseases determined from an electronic medical record biobank.Sleep · 2019
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10. Objective cognitive functioning in self-reported habitual short sleepers not reporting daytime dysfunction: examination of impulsivity via delay discounting.Sleep · 2018
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11. Response.Sleep medicine · 2017
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  On self-reported measurements: an epidemiologic perspective.2017
• Commented on by
  Response.2017
• Commented on by
  Measurement is always better than self-report: is it that easy?2017

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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