Psychosocial factors affecting sleep misperception in middle-aged community-dwelling adults

als.fakia shared this article with you from Inoreader Psychosocial factors affecting sleep misperception in middle-aged community-dwelling adults Via PLOS ONE Alerts: New Articles by Sungjong Park, Kyungmee Park, Jee-Seon Shim, Yoosik Youm, Junsol Kim, Eun Lee, Hyeon Chang Kim Sleep misperception has long been a major issue in the field of insomnia research. Most studies of sleep misperception examine sleep underestimation by comparing the results of polysomnography conducted in a laboratory environment with patients' sleep diary entries. We aimed to investigate psychosocial characteristics of adults who underestimated or overestimated sleep time in a nonclinical, middle-aged community-dwelling population. We collected one week of sleep data with wrist-worn accelerometers. We used egocentric social network analysis to analyze the effects of psychosocial factors. Among 4,060 study participants, 922 completed the accelerometer substudy. Underestimation was defined as an accelerometer-measured sleep time ≥ 6 h and a subjective sleep time View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.