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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chronobiol Int. 2021 Jan 21;38(5):694–704. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2021.1871914

Table 2.

Nocturnal Polysomnography Sleep Parameters at Post-Test (n = 7)

Treatment (n = 5) Control (n = 2)
Description Median (SD) Median (SD)
Total Time in Bed
(TIB; minutes)
From lights out to final wake time by self-report in diary 632.5 (158.2) 528.5 (57.3)
Total Sleep Time
(TST; minutes)
The total time spent asleep during the sleep period time 467.0 (106.3) 314.5 (213.5)
Sleep Onset Latency
(minutes)
From light out to first 30-second epoch scored as sleep from lights out 14 (27.9) 63 (64.3)
Sleep Efficiency
(%)
TST/TIB × 100 74 (1.9) 58 (33.9)
Stage 1 Sleep
 Percent (%) 11.4 (3.5) 10.0 (4.2)
 Minutes 63.0 (15.8) 36.0 (34.6)
Stage 2 Sleep
 Percent (%) 78.4 (5.6) 77.9 (3.5)
 Minutes 342.0 (80.3) 241.5 (155.6)
Stage 3 Sleep
 Percent (%) 0.2 (3.7) 9.3 (4.6)
 Minutes 1.0 (22.5) 24.2 (5.3)
REM Sleep 6.4 (3.2) 2.7 (3.9)
 Percent (%) 35.5 (18.1) 12.8 (18.0)
 Minutes
Wake after Sleep Onset (minutes) Total number of minutes spent awake after sleep onset 155.0 (334.7) 150.5 (91.2)
Arousals
(counts)
Total number of abrupt interruptions in sleep lasting 3 to15 seconds ending in lighter sleep stage 56.0 (15.9) 55.5 (54.4)
Awakenings (counts) Total number of interruptions in sleep lasting longer than 15 seconds scored as wake 41.0 (23.8) 15.5 (16.3)