Measuring sleep in young children and their mothers: Identifying actigraphic sleep composites.
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SUBMITTER: Staples AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822101 | biostudies-literature | 2019
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Measuring sleep in young children and their mothers: Identifying actigraphic sleep composites.
Staples Angela D AD Bates John E JE Petersen Isaac T IT McQuillan Maureen E ME Hoyniak Caroline C
International journal of behavioral development 20190217 3
The present study considered multiple aspects of sleep in a community sample of young children (at ages 30, 36, and 42 months) and their mothers, using both diaries and actigraphy. Through principal components analysis, 17 of 20 commonly used actigraphy variables were reduced to four main components whose variables formed composites of: Activity, night-to-night Variability, Timing, and Duration. Sleep latency and daytime sleep variables remained separate from the composites. The same components ...[more]
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