PMID- 22003979 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120209 LR - 20120511 IS - 1540-2010 (Electronic) IS - 1540-2002 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 4 DP - 2011 TI - Assessing the efficacy to conduct the multiple sleep latency test with actigraphy. PG - 257-65 LID - 10.1080/15402002.2011.607018 [doi] AB - This study explored the efficacy of 1 actigraphy (ACT) brand, at different analytic settings, for use to administer the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT). Forty-one first-time postpartum mother and father participants were administered the MSLT with concurrent ACT. To identify ACT sleep onset latency (SOL), ACT signals were interpreted with iterations of different "wake threshold value" (WTV) and "immobile minutes for sleep onset" value (IMV) settings. The different iterations of ACT-SOL values were compared to MSLT-SOL values. The WTV settings did not affect ACT-SOL, but the ACT-SOL and MSLT-SOL significantly differed at each ACT-IMV setting. ACT consistently identified SOL too soon; however, future research, along with technological innovation, may identify a viable methodology to conduct an ambulatory MSLT. FAU - Insana, Salvatore P AU - Insana SP AD - Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA. FAU - Glowacki, Sierra S AU - Glowacki SS FAU - Montgomery-Downs, Hawley E AU - Montgomery-Downs HE LA - eng GR - R21HD053836/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 GM081741/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 HL-082610-04/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Behav Sleep Med JT - Behavioral sleep medicine JID - 101149327 SB - IM MH - Actigraphy/*methods MH - Adult MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Parents MH - Polysomnography/methods MH - Postpartum Period/*physiology MH - Sleep/*physiology EDAT- 2011/10/19 06:00 MHDA- 2012/02/10 06:00 CRDT- 2011/10/19 06:00 PHST- 2011/10/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/10/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/02/10 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1080/15402002.2011.607018 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Behav Sleep Med. 2011;9(4):257-65. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2011.607018.