How do people feel about sleep diaries? Factors influencing sleep diaries completion with and without daily exposure to light.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Sleep diary is a common tool in sleep medicine, but was barely validated in practice so far. Lack of light exposure is associated with sleep disorders, especially insomnia. For that purpose, our team developed a sleep diary with information about light exposure. Our objectives were to compare the proportion of informative usual sleep diaries (USD) and light/sleep diaries (LSD) and to evaluate factors influencing the quality of filling them.

Methods

A monocentric, prospective, controlled interventional study was conducted. Patients included were randomized into two parallel groups: distribution of an USD (used in common practice), versus distribution of a LSD (similar to the USD but with light exposure data). The main outcome was the proportion of diaries ret

SUBMITTER: Gass B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11922216 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature