Actigraphy data in pediatric research: The role of sleep diaries

When assessing children's sleep using actigraphy, researchers usually rely on a sleep diary completed by a parent as an aid in scoring actigraphic data. However, parental non-adherence in completing the sleep diary may significantly reduce the amount of available data. The current study examined the agreement between actigraphic data scored with and without a sleep diary in order to evaluate the impact of not using a sleep diary when studying children's sleep with actigraphy.

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