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Assessment of infant sleep: how well do multiple methods compare?
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A systematic review of proxy-report questionnaires assessing physical activity, sedentary behavior and/or sleep in young children (aged 0-5 years).The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Assessment of 24-hour physical behaviour in children and adolescents via wearables: a systematic review of free-living validation studies.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Early sleep intervention for improving infant sleep quality: a randomized controlled trial, preliminary result.BMC pediatrics · 2024Trial
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- A Multi-Stage Framework for Refining Infant Daytime Sleep-Wake Labels from Wearable Accelerometer Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Maturation of infant sleep during the first 6 months of life: a mini-scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
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- NAPping PAnts (NAPPA): An open wearable solution for monitoring Infant's sleeping rhythms, respiration and posture.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Accelerometer Thresholds for Estimating Physical Activity Intensity Levels in Infants: A Preliminary Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Machine Learning-Derived Active Sleep as an Early Predictor of White Matter Development in Preterm Infants.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Ethical considerations in using sensors to remotely assess pediatric health behaviors.The American psychologist · 2024Article
- Post-PICU sleep efficiency and quality of life in infants and toddlers with acquired brain injury.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
The current study compares sleep variables obtained from videosomnography, actigraphy, and sleep diaries, three of the most common sleep assessment methods used in infant sleep studies. Using a sample of 90 African American 3-month olds, we compare correlations and discrepancies for seven sleep variables across each of the three pairs of assessment methods for one night of a week-long sleep study. These seven variables are indicative of sleep schedule (e.g. sleep onset time, rise time), duration (e.g. sleep period, sleep time, wake time), and fragmentation (e.g. night wakings, longest sleep period). We find that across all sleep assessment methods, correlations are highest for variables indicative of sleep schedule, and lowest for variables indicative of sleep fragmentation. Comparing the magnitude and significance of the discrepancies, we find that actigraphy and sleep diaries significantly overestimate sleep period duration and underestimate the number of night waking episodes, compared with videosomnography. Actigraphy and sleep diaries were more concordant with one another than with videosomnography. Epoch-by-epoch analyses indicated that actigraphy had low sensitivity to detect wakefulness, compared with videosomnography. Contrary to our hypothesis, the discrepancies between sleep assessment methods did not vary widely based on infant sleep location (own room vs. parent's room) or sleep surface (own bed vs. parent's bed). Limitations and implications of these findings for future research are discussed.
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