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ŌURA in Research

Oura Ring has been featured in dozens of clinical trials at well-known universities and research institutions. Below, you can filter a selection of peer-reviewed studies from the past several years by subject matter or date.

2025
Temporal Trajectories in Sleep, Temperature Trends, Cardiorespiratory, and Activity Metrics Measured via Oura Ring During Pregnancy: Large-Scale Observational Analysis
2025
Sleep Reactivity Amplifies the Impact of Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal on Sleep Disturbances
2025
Smart Rings in Remote Monitoring at Home: Older Patients' Perceptions and Expectations
2025
Exploring associations between sleep duration and performance as well as heart rate variability in elite esports athletes
2025
Menstrual Cycle Symptoms, But Not Oestrogen or Progesterone Concentrations, Are Associated With Sleep in Female Athletes
2025
Effects of Somato® TOMATO Fruit Extract on Key Physiological and Psychological Domains Associated with Sleep Quality, Autonomic Function, and Health-Related Quality of Life: A Pilot Study
2025
Establishing Comprehensive Normative Values of Objective Sleep Quantity and Quality in Collegiate Athletes
2025
Changes in Wearable Sleep Technology Metrics During Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation Uptitration
2025
Integrating Wearables Into a Hybrid Care Model: Continuous Remote Monitoring of a Diabetic Patient With Frequent Premature Ventricular Contractions Using an ŌURA Ring
2025
Development of machine learning prediction models for systemic inflammatory response following controlled exposure to a live attenuated influenza vaccine in healthy adults using multimodal wearable biosensors in Canada: a single-centre, prospective controlled trial
2025
Validation of the Norwegian version of the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire for shift workers (MCTQShift)
2025
Selecting Wearable Devices to Measure Cardiovascular Functions in Community-Dwelling Adults: Application of a Practical Guide for Device Selection
2025
Heart Rate Variability Measurements Across the Menstrual Cycle and Oral Contraceptive Phases in Two Olympian Female Swimmers: A Case Report
2025
Testing the Impact of Intensive, Longitudinal Sampling on Assessments of Statistical Power and Effect Size Within a Heterogeneous Human Population: Natural Experiment Using Change in Heart Rate on Weekends as a Surrogate Intervention
2025
Relationship stress and sleep: examining the mediation of social media use for objective and subjective sleep quality
2025
Wearable-derived short sleep duration is associated with higher C-reactive protein in a placebo-controlled vaccine trial among young adults
2025
Selecting Wearable Devices to Measure Cardiovascular Functions in Community-Dwelling Adults: Application of a Practical Guide for Device Selection
2025
Analysis of sleep quality and quantity during a half-season in world-class handball players
2025
Insights about Travel-Related Sleep Disruption from 1.5 Million Nights of Data
2025
Longitudinal assessment of objective sleep and power output in Division I collegiate baseball athletes
2025
Cognitive Performance Measurements and the Impact of Sleep Quality Using Wearable and Mobile Sensors
2025
Oura Ring as a Tool for Ovulation Detection: Validation Analysis
2025
Physiological Data Collected from Wearable Devices Identify and Predict Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flares
2024
How acute stress affects sleep: large-scale observations from continuous smart ring measurements in free-living conditions
2024
Deep learning model using continuous skin temperature data predicts labor onset
2024
Feasibility of snapshot testing using wearable sensors to detect cardiorespiratory illness (COVID infection in India)
2024
Digital Phenotyping of Mental and Physical Conditions: Remote Monitoring of Patients Through RADAR-Base Platform
2024
Sleep, Well-Being, and Cognition in Medical Interns on a Float or Overnight Call Schedule
2024
Accuracy of Three Commercial Wearable Devices for Sleep Tracking in Healthy Adults
2024
Effects of night-to-night variations in objectively measured sleep on blood glucose in healthy university students
2024
A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship between Sleep and Nap Behavior of NCAA Divison 1 Football Student-Athletes
2024
Biometrics of complete human pregnancy recorded by wearable devices
2024
Exploring the Impact of a Sleep App on Sleep Quality in a General Population Sample: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
2024
Magnesium-L-threonate improves sleep quality and daytime functioning in adults with self-reported sleep problems: A randomized controlled trial
2024
The Two Fundamental Shapes of Sleep Heart Rate Dynamics and Their Connection to Mental Health in College Students
2024
COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects and Long-Term Neutralizing Antibody Response: A Prospective Cohort Study
2024
Early adverse physiological event detection using commercial wearables: challenges and opportunities
2024
Feasibility of continuous smart health monitoring in pregnant population: A mixed-method approach
2024
Effectiveness of a grid mattress on adults' sleep quality and health: a quasi-experimental intervention study
2024
Predicting stress in first-year college students using sleep data from wearable devices
2024
The Healthspan Project: A Retrospective Pilot of Biomarkers and Biometric Outcomes after a 6-Month Multi-Modal Wellness Intervention
2024
Utilizing Wearable Device Data for Syndromic Surveillance: A Fever Detection Approach
2024
Dissecting the heterogeneity of “in the wild” stress from multimodal sensor data
2023
Validity and reliability of the Oura Ring Generation 3 (Gen3) with Oura sleep staging algorithm 2.0 (OSSA 2.0) when compared to multi-night ambulatory polysomnography: A validation study of 96 participants and 421,045 epochs
2024
Elevated body temperature is associated with depressive symptoms: results from the TemPredict Study
2024
Advancing a U.S. navy shipboard infrastructure for sleep monitoring with wearable technology
2023
Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Preterm-Born Young Adults and Association with Vitamin D: A Wearable Device Assessment
2023
Evaluating the Impact of an App-Delivered Mindfulness Meditation Program to Reduce Stress and Anxiety During Pregnancy: Pilot Longitudinal Study
2023
Selecting a sleep tracker from EEG-based, iteratively improved, low-cost multisensor, and actigraphy-only devices
2023
Variability of temperature measurements recorded by a wearable device by biological sex
2023
Daytime Sleep-Tracking Performance of Four Commercial Wearable Devices During Unrestricted Home Sleep
2023
Comparison and agreement between device-estimated and self-reported sleep period in adults
2023
Predicting labor onset relative to the estimated date of delivery using smart ring physiological data
2023
Country differences in nocturnal sleep variability: Observations from a large-scale, long-term sleep wearable study
2023
Assessing ‘readiness’ by tracking fluctuations in daily sleep duration and their effects on daily mood, motivation, and sleepiness
2023
Night work, season and alertness as occupational safety hazards in the Arctic: protocol for the Noralert observational crossover study among Norwegian process operators
2023
Assessing Adherence to Multi-Modal Oura Ring Wearables From COVID-19 Detection Among Healthcare Workers
2023
Longitudinal changes in objective sleep parameters during pregnancy
2023
Wearable-based Measures of Sleep Across the Menstrual Cycle in Healthy Women in the Reproductive Stage and Early Menopause
2023
Objectively measured sleep duration and efficiency among surgical gynecologic oncology patients: An opportunity to optimize surgical recovery and improve quality of life
2023
A holistic approach to preventing type 2 diabetes in Asian women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus: a feasibility study and pilot randomized controlled trial
2023
Towards continuous mental state detection in everyday settings: investigating between-subjects variations in a longitudinal study
2020
How Accurate Is Oura’s Respiratory Rate?
2023
Exploring Access as a Process of Adaptation in a Self-Monitoring Perinatal eHealth System: Mixed Methods Study From a Sociomaterial Perspective
2023
Predictors of adherence to electronic self-monitoring in patients with bipolar disorder: a contactless study using Growth Mixture Models
2023
Feasibility of Measuring Physiological Responses to Breakthrough Infections and COVID-19 Vaccine Using a Wearable Ring Sensor
2023
Good Sleep is a Mood Buffer for Young Women During Menses
2022
Recovery of the physiological status in professional basketball players using NESA neuromodulation treatment during different types of microcycles in season: A preliminary randomized clinical trial
2022
Digital phenotyping by wearable-driven artificial intelligence in older adults and people with Parkinson's disease: Protocol of the mixed method, cyclic ActiveAgeing study
2022
A Weighted Blanket Increases Pre-Sleep Salivary Concentrations of Melatonin in Young, Healthy Adults
2022
Sleep and COVID-19. A Case Report of a Mild COVID-19 Patient Monitored by Consumer-Targeted Sleep Wearables
2022
Full-Body Photobiomodulation Therapy Is Associated with Reduced Sleep Durations and Augmented Cardiorespiratory Indicators of Recovery
2022
The Impact of Smartphone Usage on Circadian Cycles: A Case Study with Wearable Ring
2022
A Validation of Six Wearable Devices for Estimating Sleep, Heart Rate, and Heart Rate Variability in Health Adults
2020
Real-time infection prediction with wearable physiological monitoring and AI to aid military workforce readiness during COVID-19
2022
Multi-Night at-Home Evaluation of Improved Sleep Detection and Classification with a Memory-Enhanced Consumer Sleep Tracker
2020
Two-year continuous data capture using a wearable sensor to remotely monitor the surgical spine patient: a case report
2020
Better Understanding of the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy (BUMP): protocol for a digital feasibility study in women from preconception to postpartum
2021
Trait-like nocturnal sleep behavior identified by combining wearable, phone-use, and self-report data
2021
Seamlessly Integrable Optoelectronics for Clinical Grade Wearables
2020
Sport entrepreneurs’ performance in business
2016
Ultradian Rhythms in Heart Rate Variability and Distal Body Temperature Anticipate the Luteinizing Hormone Surge Onset
2016
Sleep Lab validation of a wellness ring in detecting sleep patterns based on photoplethysmogram, actigraphy and body temperature
2023
Validation of Oura ring energy expenditure and steps in laboratory and free-living
2023
Supporting lifestyle change in obese pregnant mothers through the wearable internet-of-things (SLIM) -intervention for overweight pregnant women: Study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial
2022
Mental health related differences in healthcare worker’s temporal patterns of cognition, stress, mood, and sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic
2022
Correlation of Atrial Fibrillation Detection Using Oura Ring with Photoplethysmography in Comparison to the Apple Watch Electrocardiography Algorithm
2022
Polar Vantage and Oura Physical Activity and Sleep Trackers: Validation and Comparison Study
2022
Stress Resilience Program for Health Care Professionals During a Pandemic: A Pilot Program
2022
Detection of COVID-19 Using Multimodal Data from a Wearable Device: Results from the First TemPredict Study
2022
A Micro-Level Analysis of Physiological Responses to COVID-19: Continuous Monitoring of Pregnant Women in California
2022
Performance of Four Commercial Wearable Sleep-Tracking Devices under Unrestricted Conditions at Home in Healthy Young Adults
2022
Trends in Daily Heart Rate Variability Fluctuations are Associating with Longitudinal Changes in Stress and Somatisation in Police Officers
2022
Feasibility of continuous distal body temperature for passive, early pregnancy detection
2022
Metrics from Wearable Devices as Candidate Predictors of Antibody Response Following Vaccination against COVID-19: Data from the Second TemPredict Study
2022
Tracking Sleep, Temperature, Heart Rate, and Daily Symptoms Across the Menstrual Cycle with the Oura Ring in Healthy Women
2022
Mood ratings and digital biomarkers from smartphone and wearable data differentiates and predicts depression status: A longitudinal data analysis
2021
A longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 lockdown stringency on sleep and resting heart measures across 20 countries
2021
Assessing the Accuracy of Popular Commercial Technologies That Measure Resting Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability
2021
The Promise of Sleep: A Multi-Sensor Approach for Accurate Sleep Stage Detection Using the Oura Ring
2021
Predicting Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using Smartphone and Wearable Data
2021
Human Adaptations to Multiday Saturation on NASA NEEMO
2020
Feasibility of continuous fever monitoring using wearable devices
2020
Feasible assessment of recovery and cardiovascular health: accuracy of nocturnal HR and HRV assessed via ring PPG in comparison to medical grade ECG
2020
Ultradian Rhythms in Heart Rate Variability and Distal Body Temperature Anticipate the Luteinizing Hormone Surge Onset
2022
"Leave your smartphone out of bed": quantitative analysis of smartphone use effect on sleep quality