The Sleep of the Ring: Comparison of the OURA Sleep Tracker Against Polysomnography

Abstract

OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND: To evaluate the performance of a multisensor sleep-tracker (ŌURA ring) against polysomnography (PSG) in measuring sleep and sleep stages. PARTICIPANTS: Forty-one healthy adolescents and young adults (13 females; Age: 17.2 ± 2.4 years). METHODS: Sleep data were recorded using the ŌURA ring and standard PSG on a single laboratory overnight. Metrics were compared using Bland-Altman plots and epoch-by-epoch (EBE) analysis. RESULTS: Summary variables for sleep onset latency (SOL), total sleep time (TST), and wake after sleep onset (WASO) were not different between ŌURA ring and PSG. PSG-ŌURA discrepancies for WASO were greater in participants with more PSG-defined WASO (p < ..