ASAA Partners with Achievement, Platform for Clinical Recruitment and Healthy Actions

Let's Get Healthy!

In 2017, the American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) entered into a valuable new partnership with Achievement, an online platform that rewards users for healthy actions.

One of Achievement's most important functions is to promote clinical research participation opportunities for users.

Earlier this year, they featured ASAA's SleepHealth Mobile App Study, which resulted in 1100 new enrolled participants.

(You can learn more about our successful SleepHealth App here.)

How Achievement directly benefits you, the user

What may be even more interesting to program participants is that Achievement rewards their users—with cash!—for taking healthy actions.

Now you can get paid for your healthy actions. If you're already tracking your sleep activity, you can now get paid to do so.

What is a healthy action? These include participating in clinical studies (like the SleepHealth App) and using connecting apps to track certain information about your day-to-day health, such as sleep quantity and quality.

The Achievement program also rewards participants who track more than just their sleep, such as those who use fitness trackers or who track their heart rate.

If you're a health data buff and use tracking wearables and apps to keep you on track for good health, you will want to participate in this program.

Sign up for Achievement today!

Why? Because the ASAA shares the Achievement platform's mission: to help you improve your health. And because, quite frankly, you get to benefit directly by participating!

To show they are serious about rewarding people for taking their sleep health seriously through healthy actions, the folks at Achievement have decided to make a donation to the ASAA for every person who signs up for their platform!



Check out the details at myachievement.com/welcome/asaa! 

Please take a moment to sign up at Achievement. It's not only an important research recruitment tool, but a fun and easy way to track and improve your sleep (and wake) health!

Sign up now and Achievement will make a donation to ASAA in your honor. If you aren't already using our SleepHealth Mobile App Study, you can do so, free, here at the iTunes store.

Special notice to SleepHealth App Users: FREE and LIVE webinar on sleep apnea care tonight!

New webinar dial in number

If you want to call in to the webinar, dial 202-602-1295 and enter 960-914-660 for the conference ID.

Otherwise, sign in directly at join.me/sleephealth.

Hope to see you there tonight! Bring all your questions! —Your friends at the ASAA and Sleeptember

“As a non-profit organization, the American Sleep Apnea Association
does not endorse any hospital, sleep center, company, or products.”

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CALLING FOR MORNING BEDHEAD SELFIES!

IT'S SLEEPTEMBER!

Don't forget to tag your morning
bedhead selfie with both
#ASAABedhead and #Sleeptember

#Sleeptember is our month-long campaign during September to raise awareness of sleep disorders, to educate people on the importance of sleep and to promote healthy sleep habits.

What can you do to help?

• Take your bedhead photo and post on your social media using #ASAABedhead and #Sleeptember

• Tag friends and family and challenge them to do the same

• Pledge to sleep a little longer during Sleeptember

There will be a prize for the #ASAAbedhead selfie with the most likes... 4 (four) Day-Hopper Passes for Disneyworld valued at $648! 

Please help us spread the word during #Sleeptember. We spend one-third of our lifetime sleeping, let’s make those sleep hours count and connect the dots between healthy sleep and a healthy life.

Special Notice to SleepHealth App users: Hurricane Harvey Relief Effort

Current relief effort: Hurricane Harvey, Texas

To our Sleep Health App users:

As you well know, Hurricane Harvey has devastated Houston, TX and its surrounding areas and is currently blazing a new path toward communities to the east in Louisiana. 

The fourth largest US city is home to thousands of CPAP users. The American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) is prepared to provide replacement PAP therapy via its CPAP Assistance Program (CAP) to any sleep apnea patients who have lost their equipment in the aftermath of the storm.

Blog readers update, August 2017

Dear SleepHealthApp participants and blog readers:

You may have noticed that our content at this blog has shifted recently.

The majority of our general sleep health blog content is now being published at SleepApnea.org.

You can still access it here. Simply click on the links listed above this blog post to locate our most recent content.

Meanwhile, we will continue to publish news and information related to the SleepHealthApp as it occurs, with some news coming in September! You'll also find other content published here that's related to our larger efforts at the American Sleep Apnea Association, such as our A.W.A.K.E. support groups, CPAP Assistance Program, and Sleeptember efforts.

We appreciate your support as we continue to refine our efforts to best reach those who need support for their sleep disorders wherever they can be found on the web. Thank you for following and subscribing!

What is the Vernal Equinox?

The Vernal (or Spring) Equinox is the more formal, scientific name for the First Day of Spring.

The equinox is the moment in which the plane of the Earth's midline, the Equator, passes through the center of the Sun.

This creates the only time when the edge of night and day known as the "solar terminator" runs completely perpendicular to the Equator, causing the day and night to be equal in length

In this moment, both the Northern and Southern hemispheres are also equally illuminated.

The only other equinox takes place in fall and is called the Autumnal Equinox. This year's event takes place on September 22.

Tell us your Daylight Saving Time story, and take our poll!

It’s likely everyone has at least one story to share about some mistake or circumstance that resulted from the “spring forward” time change. 

Tell us… what did you do for Daylight Savings Time this morning?

Visit us at our new SleepApnea.org blog to participate!