Open AccessSelf-Reported and Measured Sleep Duration
Author(s) -
Diane S. Lauderdale,
Kristen L. Knutson,
Lijing L. Yan,
Kiang Liu,
Paul J. Rathouz
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0b013e318187a7b0
Subject(s) - actigraphy , sleep (system call) , medicine , sleep debt , obesity , population , diabetes mellitus , demography , physical therapy , insomnia , sleep disorder , psychiatry , environmental health , sociology , computer science , endocrinology , operating system
Recent epidemiologic studies have found that self-reported duration of sleep is associated with obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and mortality. The extent to which self reports of sleep duration are similar to objective measures and whether individual characteristics influence the degree of similarity are not known.