Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges

Sleep is one of the most important factors in maintaining both physical and mental health. There are many causes of sleep problems, it is generally necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle to avoid them. In the medical field, information related to sleep problems including lifestyle information is...

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Main Authors: Jiyoun Lim, Chi Yoon Jeong, Jeong Muk Lim, Seungeun Chung, Gague Kim, Kyoung Ju Noh, Hyuntae Jeong
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9667514/
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author Jiyoun Lim
Chi Yoon Jeong
Jeong Muk Lim
Seungeun Chung
Gague Kim
Kyoung Ju Noh
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description Sleep is one of the most important factors in maintaining both physical and mental health. There are many causes of sleep problems, it is generally necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle to avoid them. In the medical field, information related to sleep problems including lifestyle information is obtained through interviews, but this approach is limited because it is dependent on the patient’s memory. Thus, there are many studies adopting ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) to collect patient’s lifestyles. Some of them also use smart devices to collect data effectively. However, these studies focused on specific factors such as smoking, exercising so that they have limits to reflect complex narrative of lifestyle patterns. Therefore, we proposed indicators consist of EMAs data for assessing everyday sleep quality and these indicators contain the complex lifestyle contexts in a quantitative manner. First, we collected real-life data using a smartphone through a 4-week data collection experiment. Second, we develop a method of generating daily indexes reflecting geospatial and social habits, social condition, activity level, and emotional condition using self-report data. Third, we evaluated daily indexes whether could use to supplement indicators comprising features using EMAs from conventional sleep questionnaires. The goal of analysis consists of five metrics of sleep quality that explain perceived sleep quality. The result of analysis indicates that features using both daily indexes and sleep questionnaires lead to better prediction of sleep quality. Additionally, it also shows the potential to generate indicators identifying complex human behaviors with the help of mobile devices and EMAs. Further research on user-friendly data acquisition methods and more diverse lifestyle information should be useful to support behavior decisions for better sleep in well-being services and in specialized medical fields.
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spelling doaj.art-d47097d1b9d443b1becd2ca01df58eb92022-12-22T04:00:38ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-01102063207610.1109/ACCESS.2021.31400749667514Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and ChallengesJiyoun Lim0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-3081Chi Yoon Jeong1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-2516Jeong Muk Lim2Seungeun Chung3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-3985Gague Kim4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5603-0549Kyoung Ju Noh5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8492-8612Hyuntae Jeong6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4339-1673Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of KoreaSleep is one of the most important factors in maintaining both physical and mental health. There are many causes of sleep problems, it is generally necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle to avoid them. In the medical field, information related to sleep problems including lifestyle information is obtained through interviews, but this approach is limited because it is dependent on the patient’s memory. Thus, there are many studies adopting ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) to collect patient’s lifestyles. Some of them also use smart devices to collect data effectively. However, these studies focused on specific factors such as smoking, exercising so that they have limits to reflect complex narrative of lifestyle patterns. Therefore, we proposed indicators consist of EMAs data for assessing everyday sleep quality and these indicators contain the complex lifestyle contexts in a quantitative manner. First, we collected real-life data using a smartphone through a 4-week data collection experiment. Second, we develop a method of generating daily indexes reflecting geospatial and social habits, social condition, activity level, and emotional condition using self-report data. Third, we evaluated daily indexes whether could use to supplement indicators comprising features using EMAs from conventional sleep questionnaires. The goal of analysis consists of five metrics of sleep quality that explain perceived sleep quality. The result of analysis indicates that features using both daily indexes and sleep questionnaires lead to better prediction of sleep quality. Additionally, it also shows the potential to generate indicators identifying complex human behaviors with the help of mobile devices and EMAs. Further research on user-friendly data acquisition methods and more diverse lifestyle information should be useful to support behavior decisions for better sleep in well-being services and in specialized medical fields.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9667514/Human factorsecological momentary assessmentssleep quality assessmentsequential analysismachine learningmobile computing
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Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges
IEEE Access
Human factors
ecological momentary assessments
sleep quality assessment
sequential analysis
machine learning
mobile computing
title Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges
title_full Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges
title_fullStr Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges
title_full_unstemmed Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges
title_short Assessing Sleep Quality Using Mobile EMAs: Opportunities, Practical Consideration, and Challenges
title_sort assessing sleep quality using mobile emas opportunities practical consideration and challenges
topic Human factors
ecological momentary assessments
sleep quality assessment
sequential analysis
machine learning
mobile computing
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9667514/
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