An Evaluation of Appearance-based Interventions for the Promotion of Sleep

Yale-NUS College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Sleep Habits

Treatments: Other: Pamphlets; Behavioral: Appearance-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02491138

A-15-083

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the efficacy of appearance-based interventions in promoting healthy sleep. One group of participants will receive standard information about sleep (control group), while the other group will receive information about how sleep affects their physical appearance (intervention group).

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-24 years
• <7 hours of sleep routinely

Exclusion criteria

• per-existing medical, sleep, or psychiatric conditions;
• history of substance abuse.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Standard information

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

In this arm, participants will receive standard information pamphlets about the benefits of good sleeping habits.

Treatment:

Other: Pamphlets

Appearance-based information

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm, participants will receive information about how sleep modifies their physical appearance. This will involve a computer transformation that morphs their face according to hours of sleep obtained.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Appearance-based intervention