Identifying at-risk university students: A system for longitudinal monitoring of sleep health

Iva Bojic*, Jintana Liu, Qi Chwen Ong, Ashwini Lawate, Malar Palaiyan, May Lwin, John Abisheganaden, Yin Leng Theng, Moon Ho Ringo Ho, Michael Yong Hwa Chia, Josip Car

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Abstract

A significant percentage of university students reported poor sleep quality due to various factors. This affects their academic performance, mental well-being, and overall health. To address this, we propose a real-time monitoring system that can effectively identify students at risk of poor sleep quality. Our system utilizes two modes of continuous data collection (i.e., consumer-grade wearables and sleep diary) to inform both students and university well-being centers about sleep quality characteristics over the past week. Incorporating both subjective and objective measures facilitates a more holistic appraisal of sleep quality. We conducted a validation study in which we collected sleep health data from university students for four weeks to show how the proposed system could be implemented. The results of our study showed that it is feasible to implement the proposed system, although no agreement between the two modes of data collection was found. This calls for future research efforts aimed at devising a composite metric that harmoniously combines these two modes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2023
EditorsCarl K. Chang, Rong N. Chang, Jing Fan, Geoffrey C. Fox, Zhi Jin, Graziano Pravadelli, Hossain Shahriar
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages143-149
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798350341034
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2023 - Hybrid, Chicago, United States
Duration: Jul 2 2023Jul 8 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2023

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, ICDH 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHybrid, Chicago
Period7/2/237/8/23

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Health Informatics

Keywords

  • consumer-grade wearables
  • Fitbit
  • sleep assessment
  • sleep diary
  • sleep quality
  • university wellbeing center

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