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Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept
Aging is a significant contributor to changes in sleep patterns, which has compounding consequences on cognitive health. A modifiable factor contributing to poor sleep is inadequate and/or mistimed light exposure. However, methods to reliably and continuously collect light levels long-term in the ho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10143576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084134 |
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author | Reynolds, Christina L. Tan, Aylmer Elliott, Jonathan E. Tinsley, Carolyn E. Wall, Rachel Kaye, Jeffrey A. Silbert, Lisa C. Lim, Miranda M. |
author_facet | Reynolds, Christina L. Tan, Aylmer Elliott, Jonathan E. Tinsley, Carolyn E. Wall, Rachel Kaye, Jeffrey A. Silbert, Lisa C. Lim, Miranda M. |
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description | Aging is a significant contributor to changes in sleep patterns, which has compounding consequences on cognitive health. A modifiable factor contributing to poor sleep is inadequate and/or mistimed light exposure. However, methods to reliably and continuously collect light levels long-term in the home, a necessity for informing clinical guidance, are not well established. We explored the feasibility and acceptability of remote deployment and the fidelity of long-term data collection for both light levels and sleep within participants’ homes. The original TWLITE study utilized a whole-home tunable lighting system, while the current project is an observational study of the light environment already existing in the home. This was a longitudinal, observational, prospective pilot study involving light sensors remotely deployed in the homes of healthy adults (n = 16, mean age: 71.7 years, standard deviation: 5.0 years) who were co-enrolled in the existing Collaborative Aging (in Place) Research Using Technology (CART) sub-study within the Oregon Center for Aging and Technology (ORCATECH). For 12 weeks, light levels were recorded via light sensors (ActiWatch Spectrum), nightly sleep metrics were recorded via mattress-based sensors, and daily activity was recorded via wrist-based actigraphy. Feasibility and acceptability outcomes indicated that participants found the equipment easy to use and unobtrusive. This proof-of-concept, feasibility/acceptability study provides evidence that light sensors can be remotely deployed to assess relationships between light exposure and sleep among older adults, paving the way for measurement of light levels in future studies examining lighting interventions to improve sleep. |
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spelling | pubmed-101435762023-04-29 Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept Reynolds, Christina L. Tan, Aylmer Elliott, Jonathan E. Tinsley, Carolyn E. Wall, Rachel Kaye, Jeffrey A. Silbert, Lisa C. Lim, Miranda M. Sensors (Basel) Article Aging is a significant contributor to changes in sleep patterns, which has compounding consequences on cognitive health. A modifiable factor contributing to poor sleep is inadequate and/or mistimed light exposure. However, methods to reliably and continuously collect light levels long-term in the home, a necessity for informing clinical guidance, are not well established. We explored the feasibility and acceptability of remote deployment and the fidelity of long-term data collection for both light levels and sleep within participants’ homes. The original TWLITE study utilized a whole-home tunable lighting system, while the current project is an observational study of the light environment already existing in the home. This was a longitudinal, observational, prospective pilot study involving light sensors remotely deployed in the homes of healthy adults (n = 16, mean age: 71.7 years, standard deviation: 5.0 years) who were co-enrolled in the existing Collaborative Aging (in Place) Research Using Technology (CART) sub-study within the Oregon Center for Aging and Technology (ORCATECH). For 12 weeks, light levels were recorded via light sensors (ActiWatch Spectrum), nightly sleep metrics were recorded via mattress-based sensors, and daily activity was recorded via wrist-based actigraphy. Feasibility and acceptability outcomes indicated that participants found the equipment easy to use and unobtrusive. This proof-of-concept, feasibility/acceptability study provides evidence that light sensors can be remotely deployed to assess relationships between light exposure and sleep among older adults, paving the way for measurement of light levels in future studies examining lighting interventions to improve sleep. MDPI 2023-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10143576/ /pubmed/37112473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084134 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Reynolds, Christina L. Tan, Aylmer Elliott, Jonathan E. Tinsley, Carolyn E. Wall, Rachel Kaye, Jeffrey A. Silbert, Lisa C. Lim, Miranda M. Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept |
title | Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept |
title_full | Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept |
title_fullStr | Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept |
title_full_unstemmed | Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept |
title_short | Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept |
title_sort | remote spectral light sensing in the home environment: further development of the twlite study concept |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10143576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112473 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084134 |
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