case series · n=3
Orthosomnia: Are Some Patients Taking the Quantified Self Too Far?
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine · 2017
Open PubMed recordDOI 10.5664/jcsm.6472tech
More sleep data always reduces anxiety
Grade C · LimitedHuman reviewed
What people say
“Tracking every sleep metric will make me sleep better.”
What the evidence says
Grade C · LimitedSleep tracking can help some people notice patterns, but clinical commentary describes orthosomnia: an unhelpful preoccupation with optimizing tracker data. Better data is not always better sleep.
Research record
What this verdict is based on
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