Remote Spectral Light Sensing in the Home Environment: Further Development of the TWLITE Study Concept.

ABSTRACT: Aging is a significant contributor to changes in sleep patterns, which has compounding consequences on cognitive health. A modifiable factor contributing to poor sleep is inadequate and/or mistimed light exposure. However, methods to reliably and continuously collect light levels long-term in the home, a necessity for informing clinical guidance, are not well established. We explored the feasibility and acceptability of remote deployment and the fidelity of long-term data collection for both light levels and sleep within participants' homes. The original TWLITE study utilized a whole-home tunable lighting system, while the current project is an observational study of the light environment already existing in the home. This was a longitudinal, observational, prospective pilot study involvin

SUBMITTER: Reynolds CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10143576 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature