Stopped: Technical difficulties with ambulatory equipment led to unacceptably high levels of data loss. As we would have had to suspend data collection under Covid precautions in any case, we decided to terminate in March of this year.
A home-based, sham-controlled, double-blind, crossover study evaluating the effects of wearing sleepwear with lateralized thermal characteristics on subjective and objective sleep measures, proximal skin temperature, and sternal skin moisture in menopausal women complaining of sleep disturbance and vasomotor symptoms.
Age range
40 Years – 69 Years
Sex
FEMALE
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Total Sleep Time
Timeframe: Two nights in the experimental condition and two nights in the control condition.
Wakefulness After Sleep Onset
Timeframe: Two nights in the experimental condition and two nights in the control condition.
Minutes of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) Stage 1 Sleep
Timeframe: Two nights in the experimental condition and two nights in the control condition.