Wearable Internet‐of‐Thing Technology to Measure Sleep of Diverse Caregivers: Preliminary Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Jung‐Ah Lee, Jiuchen Zhang, Amir Rahmani, Annie Qu · 2025
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Jung-Ah Lee, Jiuchen Zhang, Amir Rahmani, and Annie Qu use smart rings to watch the sleep of people caring for relatives with dementia, in this 2025 study. Caregivers sleep badly under constant burden, and self-report surveys miss those with limited English. One hundred three caregivers in California, mostly older women from white, Hispanic, Korean, and Vietnamese backgrounds, wore the rings for three months.
Half received a culturally tailored home support program; half served as an attention control. The rings streamed sleep stages, timing, and awakenings to phones and the cloud in real time. Deep dream sleep crept up slightly in the support group while slipping in controls. Adult-child caregivers fell asleep faster after the program, landing in the healthy range, while spousal caregivers gained less. Participants liked seeing their own sleep data. The authors call the wearable approach feasible for diverse caregivers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jung‐Ah Lee, Jiuchen Zhang, Amir Rahmani, Annie Qu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |