With actigraphy, the participant wears a wrist band with a small acceleration sensor that records movement over preset epochs.
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Actigraphy
Synonyms for "actigraphy"
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French
1 entries- actimétrie noun (the use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject)
German
1 entries- Aktigraphie noun (the use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject)
Portuguese
1 entries- actigrafia noun (the use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject)
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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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