Accuracy of parent-reported sleep duration among adolescents assessed using accelerometry

Ozerk Turan; Jonathan Garner; Linda Chang; Amal Isaiah

doi:10.1038/s41390-024-03393-z

Accuracy of parent-reported sleep duration among adolescents assessed using accelerometry

Pediatr Res. 2024 Jul 3. doi: 10.1038/s41390-024-03393-z. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Ozerk Turan¹, Jonathan Garner², Linda Chang^{2

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4}, Amal Isaiah^{5

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7

8}

Affiliations

¹ University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected].
⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected].
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected].
⁸ Institute for Health Computing, University of Maryland, Bethesda, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 38961167
DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03393-z

Abstract

Parent-reported children's sleep duration is a primary outcome measure in population-level studies, and is the primary driver of pharmacotherapy such as melatonin. Accelerometry using the Fitbit suggests that few adolescents sleep for the optimal 9-12 h as recommended by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and most parent reports grossly overestimate average nightly sleep duration. Parent reports of adolescent sleep duration are unreliable, and quantitative assessment of children's sleep duration should be considered when a significant step such as pharmacotherapy is undertaken for sleep.

Publication types

Letter