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What Should You Tell Participants About Wearing the Device to Bed? An Evidence-Based Wear Protocol for Sleep Studies
When you design a wearable sleep study, you will spend weeks on device selection, sampling strategy, and analysis pipelines. The one-page instruction sheet you hand participants at enrollment rarely gets the same scrutiny. It should. How a participant positions the band, when they charge it, and whether they wear it consistently across the protocol determine […]
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What Should You Tell Participants About Wearing the Device to Bed? An Evidence-Based Protocol for Wearable Sleep Studies
One of the most consequential decisions in a wearable sleep study is made before a single night of data is collected: the wording of the instructions you hand participants about how to wear the device to bed. Fit, wrist choice, charging habits, and skin care are not housekeeping details. They determine whether the photoplethysmography (PPG) […]
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