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Prior-night sleep predicts next-day symptoms over ten days among military personnel with sleep problems
Emerson M Wickwire1,2, Jacob Collen3, Vincent F Capaldi4
1Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. ewickwire@som.umaryland.edu.
Abstract:
This study employed remote monitoring/ecological momentary assessment methods to test the hypothesis that prior-night sleep is associated with next-day symptoms. Military personnel with sleep problems (N = 270) completed daily sleep diaries and twice-daily symptom surveys via smartphone and wore a commercial wearable for ten days. In lagged analyses controlling for age and sex, prior-night sleep was robustly associated with next-day symptoms. Findings support remote approaches to assess sleep and next-day symptoms.
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