Counting Zs: Determining the Monitoring Days Needed to Obtain Reliable Sleep Metrics in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
To obtain reliable sleep metrics, at least 9 days of actigraphy data are needed for older adults with MCI, compared to 4 days for controls, suggesting the need for extended monitoring in cognitively impaired individuals.
Authors
- Elizabeth Vlock
- Vaishali Phatak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6103-0014)
- Daniel L. Murman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0041-5455)
- Jennifer Merickel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-9110)
- Y. Zhang
- Matthew Rizzo
- Jun Ha Chang
- Xinyu Sun
- Su Chen
Institutions
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Behavioral Sleep Medicine
- Published
- 2026-02-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2026.2635121
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and related disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00