Establishing average values for actigraphy or normal ones?
In “Establishing normal values for pediatric nighttime sleep measured by actigraphy: a systematic review and meta-analysis,”
Galland et al. compiled evidence on sleep norms from 87 articles which used actigraphy in youth aged 0 to 18 [1]. The authors suggest
that the resulting average actigraphic sleep duration could serve as normative data [1]. Although this effort has enormous
value given the dearth of data on sleep duration in children and adolescents and the authors acknowledge that their findings are