Meaning of actigraphy | Babel Free

Definitions

The use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject, and analyze the subject's sleep patterns.

uncountable

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“With actigraphy, the participant wears a wrist band with a small acceleration sensor that records movement over preset epochs.”

“The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed.”

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