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Actigraphy of movement
Author(s) -
Nelson Francine
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2004.187_5.x
Subject(s) - actigraphy , sleep (system call) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physical therapy , medicine , psychology , insomnia , psychiatry , computer science , operating system
The use of actigraphy to examine sleep disorders is extensively presented in the literature. This quantitative measure for sleep and activity has many other applications to clinical research beyond sleep disorders. Two examples of other applications of actigraphy will be described. The first is a study to examine sleep, pain and rhythms in preoperative and postoperative surgery patients, and the second is a study to examine differences in levels of mobility of elderly long‐term care facility residents. A selection of results of actigraph measures for subjects from the above studies will be presented and discussed.