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Online sleep diaries: considerations for system development and recommendations for data management.
Kelly M Shaffer1, Katharine E Daniel1, Christina Frederick1
1Center for Behavioral Health and Technology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Sleep
|July 22, 2023
Summary
Developing online sleep diaries requires careful design and data management to ensure reliable data. Procedures effectively minimize errors, leading to high-quality sleep research data.
Area of Science:
- Digital health interventions
- Sleep science research
- Data integrity in clinical trials
Background:
- Online sleep diaries are crucial for collecting sleep data in digital health interventions.
- Ensuring data robustness and interpretability is essential for valid research outcomes.
- Common data entry errors can compromise the quality of sleep diary data.
Purpose of the Study:
- To outline development considerations for online sleep diary systems.
- To present methods for ensuring robust, interpretable, and reliable sleep data.
- To describe data management procedures for common data entry errors.
Main Methods:
- The Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTi) intervention incorporates features to promote data integrity.
- Diary entry restrictions, prompts, visualizations, and validation checks minimize errors.
- Data management procedures utilize programming syntax for efficient and reliable error correction.
Main Results:
- In a large randomized controlled trial, 0.01% of diaries required modification for date/AM/PM errors.
- Less than 0.001% of diaries were eliminated due to unresolvable errors.
- The implemented procedures effectively managed data entry errors in a real-world setting.
Conclusions:
- Careful design of online sleep diary systems is critical for data validity.
- Replicable data management processes are essential for maximizing data completeness and accuracy.
- These strategies ensure high-quality data for sleep research and digital health interventions.
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