actigraph


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actigraph

[ak′tigraf′]
any instrument that records changes in the activity of a substance or an organism and produces a graphic record of the process, such as an electrocardiograph.
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The really cool part was that each child wore an actigraph, or a small watch-sized computer that measured their movements at night for several weeks, so that we knew down to the minute how much they were sleeping--and how long it took for them to put themselves back to sleep if they awoke.
Sleep, glorious sleep
Agreement between activPAL and ActiGraph for assessing children's sedentary time.
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour of toddlers and preschoolers in child care centres in Alberta, Canada
They include the Actigraph (Pensacola, Florida); DynaPort (McRoberts; Den Haag, the Netherlands); StepWatch Activity Monitor (SAM) (Orthocare Innovations; Mountlake Terrace, Washington); RT3 (Stayhealthy Inc; Monrovia, California); and SenseWear Armband (BodyMedia Inc; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), a multisensor monitor [1,3,5,7,14-18].
Performance of a pedometer to measure physical activity in a U.S. cohort with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
99 with 'gold standard' ActiGraph sensors, for instance.
Canada : VIVAMETRICA to provide personal health assessments based on wearable sensor data and public health data sets
An average of five nights of objective sleep data were collected from each participant using a wrist actigraph.
Sleep quality does affect decision-making ability
After my second visit to the sleep specialist (during which we analyzed the results of an actigraph test that recorded my rest/activity cycles round the clock), I felt much more confident that I was on the path to sleeping better.
The end of polite conversation?
Objective physical activity levels, including both movement and intensity of activity, were also measured using the ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer (ActiGraph, LLC; Pensacola, FL).
Activo: assessing the feasibility of designing and implementing a physical activity intervention for Latino men
All students in the elementary sample wore ActiGraph GT1M biaxial accelerometers, which were placed on the right hip by their PE teachers.
How active are rural children and adolescents during PE class? An examination of light physical activity
Physical activity (PA) was measured objectively using the ActiGraph[R] accelerometer (Model GT3X: ActiGraph, Pensacola, FL) at 3 and 6 weeks and 3 and 6 months post-surgery.
Physical activity patterns in rural-residing spousal caregivers and cardiac surgery patients in the first 6 months post-surgery
New actigraph for long-term tremor recording, Movement Disorders 21: 1136-1143.
Research of upper limb biomechanics of subjects with Parkinson's disease and essential tremmor/Serganciuju parkinsono ir esencialinio tremoro liga virsutines galunes biomechanikos tyrimas
We believe that our community-based exposure measurements are more accurate and our confounding controls are as good or better than those used in previous investigations, which often relied on ambient pollutant monitoring at central sites and lacked actigraph physical activity data.
Particulate air pollution, ambulatory heart rate variability, and cardiac arrhythmia in retirement community residents with coronary artery disease
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the agreement between an ActiGraph accelerometer and PAtracker (direct observation) for characterizing PA intensity, and between the PAtracker and a daily PA log (self-report) for characterizing body position and PA type in the BCT environment.
Measuring physical activity during US Army Basic Combat Training: a comparison of 3 methods
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