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. 2023 Jun 28;11:e42750. doi: 10.2196/42750

Table 2.

Sleep quality metrics, measurement methods, and cutoff of good or poor sleep.

Clinical term, original term, and measurement method Cutoff
Subjective sleep quality

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index [31,38] Good: ≤5 and poor: >5 [31]; good: ≤7 and poor: >7 [38]

Sleep rating (SleepAsAndroid app) [20] N/Aa

Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire [19] N/A

Sleep rating (SleepApp) [19] N/A
SEb

SE (Fitbit) [33] Good: ≥95% and poor: <95%

Efficiency (MS Band) [43] N/A

SE (Polar) [40] Good: >mean (SD) and poor: <mean (SD)

SE (Garmin) [42] Good: ≥85% and poor: <85%
SOLc (minutes)

Minutes to fall asleep (Fitbit) [16] N/A

SOL (SleepAsAndroid app) [20] N/A

Sleep latency (Garmin) [42] Good: ≤15, average: 15-30, and poor: >30

Time to fall asleep (MS Band) [43] N/A
Time at lights off

Bedtime (Fitbit) [35] Normal bedtime: median of a participant’s bedtimes; deviation categories were 1-30 minutes, 30-60 minutes, 1-2 hours, 2-3 hours, and ≥3 hours

Bedtime (Fitbit) [37] N/A

Bedtime as estimated by the time of the last network signal [36] N/A
Wake after sleep onset (minutes)

Awake minutes (Garmin) [42] Good: ≤20 and poor: >20

Minutes awake (Fitbit) [16] Good: ≤30 and poor: >30
Number of awakenings >5 minutes

Awakenings >5 minutes (Garmin) [42] Good: ≤1 and poor: >1

Number of wakeups (MS Band) [43] N/A
Time in bed (minutes)

Time in bed (MS Band) [34] N/A
Total sleep time (minutes)

Minutes asleep (Fitbit) [16] Good: 420-540 and poor: <420 or >540
Original metrics (no corresponding medical term)

Sleep ratio=the ratio of the sleep minutes with normal heart rate versus total sleep time (Fitbit) [44] Good: >90%, normal: 60%-90%, and bad: <60%

Number of awakenings per hour [20] N/A

Awakening count including restlessness (Fitbit) [16] N/A

Permutation entropy of Fitbit measured sleep state time series [37] N/A

aN/A: not applicable.

bSE: sleep efficiency.

cSOL: sleep onset latency.