Better night, fresh days - Baby Sleep Monitor
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Correlation of sleep staging using a novel Baby Sleep Monitor with polysomnography.
IRAS ID
174256
Contact name
Laura de Amorim
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Philips Research
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 31 days
Research summary
Polysomnography (PSG) is currently the gold standard test for determining sleep staging. The set up procedure involves the attachments of several sensors to the patient’s head, face and body to record a number of physiological variables during sleep. The set up procedure is more challenging in children, who are less tolerant. PSG is most often performed in a hospital setting, based on a single night study and therefore likely to be unrepresentative of a normal night sleep at home. Performing PSG in newborns and infants can be more challenging due to the small size and poor tolerance of multiple sensors attached to their body. Therefore, there is a need for a method that can accurately stage infant sleep/wake states with none or minimal intervention, in either a hospital or home setting. Furthermore, it would be most valuable if the output from a sleep study could be used to train parents to better understand their infants’ sleep/wake patterns in their home setting.
Philips Research has developed a prototype sensor, here referred as Baby Sleep Monitor (BSM), that records the baby’s movements during sleep. This aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the infant’s sleep without the direct attachment of sensors to the infant. The data collected will be employed in the development of a classification algorithm for staging of infants’ sleep.
This study will simultaneously compare PSG and BSM recordings to determine if BSM can accurately stage sleep/wake states of infants’ sleep.
REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/SW/0174
Date of REC Opinion
30 Jun 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion