This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The data set contains personally identifiable and sensitive survey data information. Received: JanuAccepted: JPublished: July 21, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Andersen et al. PLoS ONE 16(7):Įditor: Camelia Delcea, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, ROMANIA Public health projects may benefit from combining citizen science with other interventional approaches.Ĭitation: Andersen TO, Dissing AS, Varga TV, Rod NH (2021) The SmartSleep Experiment: Evaluation of changes in night-time smartphone behavior following a mass media citizen science campaign. Using citizen science and mass media appeared to be associated with changes in night-time smartphone behavior. The reduction in sleep problems (54%), recognition of poor smartphone behavior (48%), and the increased focus on night-time smartphone use (42%) were motivational factors for these behavior changes. The participants who had changed their smartphone behavior had primarily taken active precautions to avoid night-time smartphone use, e.g., activating silent mode (36%) or reduced their smartphone use before (50%) and during sleep hours (52%). A total of 15% of the participants who used their smartphone during sleep hours at baseline had changed their night-time smartphone behavior, and 83% of those indicated that they used their smartphone less at follow-up. A follow-up survey aimed at evaluating whether survey-participants had changed their night-time smartphone behavior was carried out two weeks after the campaign. The survey was carried out for one week in 2018, combined with an extensive national mass media campaign focusing on smartphone behaviors and sleep. A total of 8,894 Danish adults aged 16 and above participated in the SmartSleep Experiment, a web-based survey on smartphones and sleep behavior. This study aims to evaluate whether a massive public focus on sleep and smartphone use generated through a large-scale citizen science project, the SmartSleep Experiment, influence participants’ night-time smartphone behavior. The increasing 24-hour smartphone use is of public health concern.
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