Commentary: Comparing Actigraphy and Parental Report as Measures of Children's Sleep

Abstract

Sleep in children can be assessed using a variety of methods. Direct observations, self-reports, parental reports, time-lapse video, actigraphy, and polysomnogra-phy have been repeatedly used in pediatric sleep research and clinical practice. Parental reports have always been a main source of information on children’s sleep. Caregiver observations, in questionnaire or diary format, can provide detailed description of the child’s sleep schedule, night-wakings, and sleep-related behaviors such as resistance to go sleep or to sleep alone, sleep walking, night terrors, and other parasomnia. Parents can also provide information about snoring, restless and disrupted sleep, or even apneic pauses, which are important markers of sleep-disordered breathing. Over the last two decades, actigraphy has become an increasingly useful sleep assessment research and clinical tool in infants, children, and adults (Ancoli-Israel et al.,

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