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Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic
Older adults are susceptible to poor night-time sleep, characterized by short sleep duration and high sleep disruptions (i.e., more frequent and longer awakenings). This study aimed to longitudinally and objectively assess the changes in sleep patterns of older Australians during the 2020 pandemic l...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8471147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34577202 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21185993 |
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author | Kholghi, Mahnoosh Ellender, Claire M. Zhang, Qing Gao, Yang Higgins, Liesel Karunanithi, Mohanraj |
author_facet | Kholghi, Mahnoosh Ellender, Claire M. Zhang, Qing Gao, Yang Higgins, Liesel Karunanithi, Mohanraj |
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description | Older adults are susceptible to poor night-time sleep, characterized by short sleep duration and high sleep disruptions (i.e., more frequent and longer awakenings). This study aimed to longitudinally and objectively assess the changes in sleep patterns of older Australians during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. A non-invasive mattress-based device, known as the EMFIT QS, was used to continuously monitor sleep in 31 older adults with an average age of 84 years old before (November 2019–February 2020) and during (March–May 2020) the COVID-19, a disease caused by a form of coronavirus, lockdown. Total sleep time, sleep onset latency, wake after sleep onset, sleep efficiency, time to bed, and time out of bed were measured across these two periods. Overall, there was no significant change in total sleep time; however, women had a significant increase in total sleep time (36 min), with a more than 30-min earlier bedtime. There was also no increase in wake after sleep onset and sleep onset latency. Sleep efficiency remained stable across the pandemic time course between 84–85%. While this sample size is small, these data provide reassurance that objective sleep measurement did not deteriorate through the pandemic in older community-dwelling Australians. |
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spelling | pubmed-84711472021-09-27 Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic Kholghi, Mahnoosh Ellender, Claire M. Zhang, Qing Gao, Yang Higgins, Liesel Karunanithi, Mohanraj Sensors (Basel) Communication Older adults are susceptible to poor night-time sleep, characterized by short sleep duration and high sleep disruptions (i.e., more frequent and longer awakenings). This study aimed to longitudinally and objectively assess the changes in sleep patterns of older Australians during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. A non-invasive mattress-based device, known as the EMFIT QS, was used to continuously monitor sleep in 31 older adults with an average age of 84 years old before (November 2019–February 2020) and during (March–May 2020) the COVID-19, a disease caused by a form of coronavirus, lockdown. Total sleep time, sleep onset latency, wake after sleep onset, sleep efficiency, time to bed, and time out of bed were measured across these two periods. Overall, there was no significant change in total sleep time; however, women had a significant increase in total sleep time (36 min), with a more than 30-min earlier bedtime. There was also no increase in wake after sleep onset and sleep onset latency. Sleep efficiency remained stable across the pandemic time course between 84–85%. While this sample size is small, these data provide reassurance that objective sleep measurement did not deteriorate through the pandemic in older community-dwelling Australians. MDPI 2021-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8471147/ /pubmed/34577202 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21185993 Text en © 2021 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 | Communication Kholghi, Mahnoosh Ellender, Claire M. Zhang, Qing Gao, Yang Higgins, Liesel Karunanithi, Mohanraj Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic |
title | Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic |
title_full | Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic |
title_short | Home-Based Sleep Sensor Measurements in an Older Australian Population: Before and during a Pandemic |
title_sort | home-based sleep sensor measurements in an older australian population: before and during a pandemic |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8471147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34577202 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21185993 |
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