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. 2007 Oct 15;3(6):613–619.

Table 2.

Average Nightly Sleep Duration by Different Measures for 2 Weeks Preceding a Multiple Sleep Latency Test

Group Sleep duration
p Value
Self-reporteda Sleep logb Actigraphyc
> 8 4 (7) 5 (10) 1 (2)
7–7.9 14 (26) 20 (40) 8 (15)
6–6.9 18 (33) 18 (36) 13 (25)
5–5.9 14 (26) 7 (14) 13 (25)
< 5 4 (7) 0 (0) 17 (33)
Mean, h 6.13 ± 1.23 6.99 ± 0.85 5.56 ± 1.50 < 0.0001

Data are presented as number (%) of patients in each group, based on number of hours of sleep, except mean, which is the mean ± SD number of hours of sleep for the total population.

a

Self-reported average nightly sleep is the patient's response to the question “How many hours of sleep do you get on average per night?”

b

Data extracted from patient sleep logs.

c

Actigraphy-measured sleep per Cole-Kripke scoring algorithm.