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Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices
Sleep disturbance is observed across species, resulting in neurocognitive dysfunction, poor impulse control and poor regulation of negative emotion. Understanding animal sleep disturbance is thus important to understand how environmental factors influence animal sleep and day-to-day welfare. Self-re...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373578/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37378461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.059964 |
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author | Greening, Linda Allen, Sian McBride, Sebastian |
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description | Sleep disturbance is observed across species, resulting in neurocognitive dysfunction, poor impulse control and poor regulation of negative emotion. Understanding animal sleep disturbance is thus important to understand how environmental factors influence animal sleep and day-to-day welfare. Self-reporting tools for sleep disturbance commonly used in human research to determine sleep quality cannot be transferred to non-verbal animal species research. Human research has, however, successfully used frequency of awakenings to create an objective measurement of sleep quality. The aim of this study was to use a novel sleep-quality scoring system for a non-human mammalian species. Five separate sleep quality indices calculations were developed, using frequency of awakenings, total sleep time and total time spent in different sleep states. These indices were applied to a pre-existing data set of equine sleep behaviour taken from a study investigating the effects of environmental change (lighting and bedding) on the duration of time in different sleep states. Significant treatment effects for index scores both differed and aligned with the original sleep quantity results, thus sleep quality may be a useful alternative measurement of sleep disturbance that could be used to investigate impactful (emotional, cognitive) effects on the animal. |
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spelling | pubmed-103735782023-07-28 Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices Greening, Linda Allen, Sian McBride, Sebastian Biol Open Research Article Sleep disturbance is observed across species, resulting in neurocognitive dysfunction, poor impulse control and poor regulation of negative emotion. Understanding animal sleep disturbance is thus important to understand how environmental factors influence animal sleep and day-to-day welfare. Self-reporting tools for sleep disturbance commonly used in human research to determine sleep quality cannot be transferred to non-verbal animal species research. Human research has, however, successfully used frequency of awakenings to create an objective measurement of sleep quality. The aim of this study was to use a novel sleep-quality scoring system for a non-human mammalian species. Five separate sleep quality indices calculations were developed, using frequency of awakenings, total sleep time and total time spent in different sleep states. These indices were applied to a pre-existing data set of equine sleep behaviour taken from a study investigating the effects of environmental change (lighting and bedding) on the duration of time in different sleep states. Significant treatment effects for index scores both differed and aligned with the original sleep quantity results, thus sleep quality may be a useful alternative measurement of sleep disturbance that could be used to investigate impactful (emotional, cognitive) effects on the animal. The Company of Biologists Ltd 2023-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10373578/ /pubmed/37378461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.059964 Text en © 2023. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Greening, Linda Allen, Sian McBride, Sebastian Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
title | Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
title_full | Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
title_fullStr | Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
title_short | Towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
title_sort | towards an objective measurement of sleep quality in non-human animals: using the horse as a model species for the creation of sleep quality indices |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373578/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37378461 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.059964 |
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