Adolescents’ next-day perceptions of their sleep quality, quantity, sleepiness and sleepiness-related symptoms relative to actigraphy metrics

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dc.citation.volume133
dc.contributor.authorTang C
dc.contributor.authorMeredith-Jones K
dc.contributor.authorHaszard JJ
dc.contributor.authorSignal TL
dc.contributor.authorWickham S-R
dc.contributor.authorMuller D
dc.contributor.authorTaylor R
dc.contributor.authorGalland BC
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-23T23:40:44Z
dc.date.available2025-06-23T23:40:44Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-01
dc.description.abstractBackground: Next-day perceptions of sleep and related symptoms are frequently collected in research and clinical practice, but how they correlate with objective sleep measures in adolescents has received little attention. Methods: Participants were aged 16–17 years and without a sleep disorder, anxiety or depression diagnosis. Seven-day wrist actigraphy was collected alongside daily survey ratings of sleep quality, sufficiency, morning and daytime sleepiness, and sleepiness-related mood and concentration. Within-person associations between daily actigraphic sleep metrics (6 variables representing quantity, quality and timing) and subjective ratings were estimated using mixed effects regression models with participant included as a random effect. Results: The sample comprised 71 adolescents (49 % female, 51 % male). No actigraphy metrics linked to sleep sufficiency ratings. Sleep onset was the strongest correlate of sleep quality and morning sleepiness in the expected direction e.g. every 10 min later onset led to a −1.4 point (95 % CI: −2.1, −0.7) drop in the sleep quality score (5-point scale, higher worse), but significant relationships were only in females. While actigraphic sleep quantity metrics were linked to several ratings, all effect sizes were marginal. Sleep quality metrics in the overall sample were not correlated to any ratings. Unexpectedly, timing and quantity metrics linked to sleepiness-related mood ratings, but in the opposite direction hypothesized. Conclusions: The lack of correlation between objective and subjective sleep quality add to the complexity of defining sleep quality accurately. Sleep onset timing, rarely explored in these types of studies emerged as an important correlate of sleep quality perception and other subjective ratings.
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dc.edition.editionSeptember 2025
dc.identifier.citationTang C, Meredith-Jones K, Haszard JJ, Signal TL, Wickham SR, Muller D, Taylor R, Galland BC. (2025). Adolescents’ next-day perceptions of their sleep quality, quantity, sleepiness and sleepiness-related symptoms relative to actigraphy metrics. Sleep Medicine. 133.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106605
dc.identifier.eissn1878-5506
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1389-9457
dc.identifier.number106605
dc.identifier.piiS1389945725002801
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/73108
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier B V
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945725002801
dc.relation.isPartOfSleep Medicine
dc.rights(c) The author/sen
dc.rights.licenseCC BYen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAdolescent
dc.subjectGender differences
dc.subjectSleepiness
dc.subjectSleep health
dc.subjectSleep metrics
dc.subjectSleep quality
dc.titleAdolescents’ next-day perceptions of their sleep quality, quantity, sleepiness and sleepiness-related symptoms relative to actigraphy metrics
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id501204
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