Sleep tracking is a way to objectively measure the quality of your sleep.
By tracking your sleep, the app enables you to:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://sleep.urbandroid.org/docs/sleep/sleep_tracking.html
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://sleep.urbandroid.org/docs/sleep/sleep_tracking.html
Is this app accurate for pediatric populations? Is the app meant to be used to track kid’s sleep or were studies on the app’s accuracy only performed on adult populations?
Hello @Emily_Provost, the app’s accuracy was measured on the data set from the Sleep labs. There are currently no available large data sets from sleep labs on children, so we cannot test how accurate is Sleep app for them specifically. The ratio of the sleep phases might be different, but the method (the actigraphy) should still work reliably because the principle is the same. Did you get strange results when measuring the kid’s sleep?