Women Experience Sleep Disruptions, Heightened Anger in Days Leading Up to Period
A new study found sleep and emotional well-being are impacted days before women get their period.
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A new study found sleep and emotional well-being are impacted days before women get their period.
The development of consumer sleep-tracking technologies has outpaced the scientific evaluation of their accuracy. In this study, five consumer sleep-tracking devices, research-grade actigraphy, and polysomnography were used simultaneously to monitor the overnight sleep of fifty-three young adults in the lab for one night. Biases and limits of agreement were assessed to determine how sleep stage estimates for each device and research-grade actigraphy differed from polysomnography-derived measures. Every device, except the Garmin Vivosmart, was able to estimate total sleep time comparably to res...