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To evaluate actigraphic home monitoring against laboratory polysomnography and assess its capacity to differentiate sleep patterns between sleep-disturbed and healthy infants and young children.

April 1, 1991PEDIATRICS

Actigraphic Home-Monitoring Sleep-Disturbed and Control Infants and Young Children: A New Method for Pediatric Assessment of Sleep-Wake Patterns

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ASAvi SadehTel Aviv University PLPeretz LavieTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology ASAnat ScherUniversitat de València

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Comparative study demonstrates actigraphic home monitoring reliably distinguishes sleep-disturbed from healthy young children, indicating its validity for noninvasive pediatric sleep assessment.

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To evaluate actigraphic home monitoring against laboratory polysomnography and assess its capacity to differentiate sleep patterns between sleep-disturbed and healthy infants and young children.
Study 1 monitored 11 children (aged 12 to 48 months) for one night in the laboratory simultaneously using traditional polysomnography and actigraphy.
Study 2 evaluated 63 sleep-disturbed children and 34 healthy controls (aged 9 to 27 months) at home using actigraphy for a mean of 4.45 nights (482 total nights) with an automated scoring algorithm.
Actigraphic automated scoring demonstrated an 85.3% overall agreement rate when compared directly with laboratory polysomnography.
Sleep quality—quantified by actigraphically derived sleep percent and awakenings lasting longer than 5 minutes—was significantly lower in sleep-disturbed children than in controls (P < .0001).
Actigraphic measures reliably differentiated groups, achieving a correct classification rate of 79.4% for sleep-disturbed children and 91.2% for control children.

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Sadeh et al. (1991) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a031c884f17ebd438652568 https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.87.4.494

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Comparative study demonstrates actigraphic home monitoring reliably distinguishes sleep-disturbed from healthy young children, indicating its validity for noninvasive pediatric sleep assessment.

Actigraphic Home-Monitoring Sleep-Disturbed and Control Infants and Young Children: A New Method for Pediatric Assessment of Sleep-Wake Patterns

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Actigraphic Home-Monitoring Sleep-Disturbed and Control Infants and Young Children: A New Method for Pediatric Assessment of Sleep-Wake Patterns

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