Advancing Adolescent Bedtime by MI and Text Reminders

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Deprivation

Treatments: Behavioral: Group MI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03614572

15163071

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic sleep deprivation among adolescents is a prevalent health problem across the world and is associated with a series of short and long term consequences. However, effective interventions targeting on this vulnerable adolescent population is very limited. Majority of the previous sleep education programme are conducted in a school context which personal factors and individualized problems were not addressed. In addition, failure to address "knowledge-action gap" may also explain why individual fail to enact health behaviors even holding positive motivation. In regard to this, investigators proposed an active and person-oriented protocol with the aid of advanced technology in order to improve adolescent sleep health.

Full description

This study will conduct a randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of group-based sleep intervention using motivational interviewing plus text reminders in changing adolescent sleep deprivation problem with both subjective and objective measurements. The intervention will consists of 4 weekly group therapy targeting on adolescent with school day sleep duration less than 7 hours.

Enrollment: 212 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chinese aged 12-18 years old
• Written informed consent of participation into the study is given by adolescents and his/her parents;
• Being able to comply with the study protocol;
• Having weekday sleep duration less than 7 hours for past 1 month as reported by questionnaire and average of <7hr weekday sleep as reported by sleep diary as an indication of chronic sleep deprivation status.
• Possess a mobile phone

Exclusion criteria

• A current or past history of neuropsychiatric disorder(s);
• A prominent medical condition or taking medication with potential side effects that may influence sleep quantity and quality
• Having a clinical sleep disorder that may potentially contribute to the disruption of sleep quantity and quality as ascertained by both Structured Diagnostic Interview for Sleep patterns and Disorders such as insomnia, delayed sleep phase and narcolepsy.
• have enrolled in any intervention programme that may affect their sleep patterns in the past three months or are planning to join intervention programme in the next three month

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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212 participants in 2 patient groups

Group MI

Experimental group

Description:

The structure and content of the active intervention programme will be developed and adopted on the basis of previous research on sleep educational programme and motivational interviewing techniques. The whole treatment package consists of 4 sessions of group therapy (n=6-8) followed by 3 week daily text reminders.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group MI

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group will no receive any intervention