Sleep Assessment

  1. Behavioral Research Program
  2. Health Behaviors Research
  3. Sleep Assessment

Overview

Sleep plays an essential role in human health and well-being. Research efforts are needed to better understand the relationship between sleep, cancer risk, and other cancer-related outcomes. Accurate assessments of sleep quantity, quality, timing, and context are needed to further this research.

The Behavioral Research Program (BRP) supports the collection of sleep data in existing and planned surveys in an attempt to develop more complete assessments of individuals’ sleep patterns. Additionally, BRP’s goals in this area include:  

  • Assess sleep more comprehensively, including sleep timing, quantity, and quality, and contextual factors, over long time periods;
  • Improve the analytic procedures used to process sleep data;
  • Improve the validity and reliability of sleep assessment instruments in various populations; and
  • Improve our understanding of the role of sleep in promoting health in both the general population and among cancer survivors.

Funding Opportunities

BRP encourages investigator-initiated grant applications on sleep assessment topics.

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Research Resources

Assessment Tools

  • Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour (ASA24) Dietary Assessment Tool’s Sleep Module
    ASA24 is a freely available web-based tool for epidemiologic, interventional, behavioral, or clinical research from NCI that enables multiple automatically coded self-administered 24-hour recalls and food records.The ASA24 system has an optional Sleep module that was added in November 2021. The sleep module can be used to examine the relationship between diet, sleep, and timing of eating occasions, including intermittent fasting.
  • The NIH Common Data Elements (CDE) Repository contains sleep-related data elements. The CDE Repository is designed to provide access to data element definitions recommended or required by NIH Institutes and Centers and other organizations for use in research and for other purposes.
  • PhenX Toolkit
    This toolkit, supported by NIH funding, is a catalogue of recommended, standard measures of phenotypes and environmental exposures, including sleep measures, for use in biomedical research.

Data and Surveys

  • NHANES 2011-2014 Sleep Data
    These data consist of various sleep metrics collected over the course of one week between 2011 and 2014 through accelerometer monitoring of over 14,200 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). These data are free to download.
  • Health-Related Data and Surveys for Epidemiologists
    EGRP compiled a list of surveys that may provide data and/or survey instruments which may be useful for assessing sleep.

Public Resources

  • 2021 NIH Sleep Research Plan: Advancing the Science of Sleep and Circadian Research
    The plan is a comprehensive approach that builds on the growth of sleep and circadian biology research and advances the mission of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. highlights critical needs and opportunities in sleep and circadian research for the coming years. It includes five strategic goals and tactics that are high-priority research areas for the NIH and nine critical opportunities related to the goals.

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