COVID-19 impacts lives of myCadian users
April 24, 2020
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that individuals are more restless, sleeping longer, and are far less active.
Our company’s engineering team analyzed anonymous data shared by users of our myCadian app over a 60-day period, from early February to late March. The results were staggering.
On a month over month basis, the average user is sleeping 5 percent longer but is growing increasingly restless. When analyzing aggregate sleep patterns, our team found that restlessness had increased by 25 percent, with the average user waking up more than four times each night mid-sleep. As a result, average Cura scores—calculated from smartphone health data to assess a user's alertness levels—fell by more than 6 percent during this period.
Combining this with a rapid decline in average activity, which plunged by 29 percent from February to March, the impact of COVID-19 is widespread and increasingly apparent among all individuals, not just those who contract the virus.
