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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014 Feb 6;43:30–40. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.01.025

Table 1.

Percent of the study sample within categories of absolute time differences between actual and requested sample collection time, by sample time and day of study. Actual sampling times were recorded by Track Caps.

0 to 5 mins >5 to10 mins >10 to15 mins >15 mins Missing
Average Wake1 53.9% (51.0%, 56.7%) 14.1% (13.9%, 14.3%) 7.8% (6.8%, 8.9%) 21.0% (19.7%, 21.9%) 3.3% (2.9%, 3.9%)
Average Wake + 30 mins1 38.6% (36.8%, 40.5%) 14.4% (13.8%, 14.9%) 10.0% (9.9%, 10.3%) 31.2% (30.0%, 33.4%) 5.8% (5.2%, 6.1%)
Average 1000 h1 42.1% (39.7%, 43.4%) 14.7% (13.5%, 16.6%) 7.5% (6.6%, 8.1%) 31.7% (28.2%, 34.7%) 4.0% (4%, 4.1%)
Average 1200 h1 30.4% (28.9%, 33.3%) 12.6% (11.4%, 13.6%) 8.1% (7.0%, 8.7%) 43.8% (40.3%, 45.8%) 5.1% (4.7%, 5.6%)
Average 1800 h1 33.9% (31.7%, 37.8%) 9.7% (8.1%, 11.3%) 8.4% (7.7%, 9.7%) 44.6% (41.8%, 46.3%) 3.4% (2.9%, 3.9%)
Average Bedtime1 62.1% (61.7%, 62.8%) 12.5% (12.2%, 12.9%) 4.7% (4.1%, 5.3%) 16.5% (15.5%, 17.2%) 4.3% (3.7%, 5.3%)
Average Day 12 44.0% 13.3% 8.0% 30.4% 4.3%
Average Day 22 44.0% 13.2% 7.1% 31.8% 4.0%
Average Day 32 42.5% 12.5% 8.2% 32.2% 4.7%
All Samples 43.5% 13.0% 7.7% 31.5% 4.3%
1

“Average” in the top six rows for wake, wake + 30 minutes, 1000 h, 1200 h, 1800 h and bedtime refers to the percentage of people whose average time difference between requested and actual sampling time falls within a given time range across the three days.

2

The “average” numbers for the rows labeled “Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3” refers to the average delay in minutes across the six samples for each individual day.

Note: The numbers in parentheses represent the range for the percentage of people who fall within a certain time range for each sample for the three days.