Cascading A Healthy Sleep Intervention In Vocational Education

University Ghent

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Implementation; Sleep Quality

Treatments: Other: Training for teachers; Other: Healthy Sleep Intervention; Other: Co-creation process

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07030556

ONZ-2024-0614

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sleep is crucial for the mental, cognitive and physical health of adolescents. However, teenagers in 2024 sleep less and less and their sleep is of poorer quality. It is striking that adolescents who follow vocational education sleep even worse compared to peers who follow a technical or general education. It is therefore important to focus on this risk group of adolescents to reduce health differences. However, there are no previous intervention studies that focused on them.

In previous research, a healthy sleep intervention was already developed, implemented and evaluated in a participatory manner. Within this research, the investigators want to focus on evaluating the process of implementation of this intervention among first and second year secondary school students (12 to 14 year olds) and teachers from vocational education. Based on the results of this process evaluation, the investigators want to deliver this intervention as a ready-made package to Flemish secondary schools.

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• student in 1st or 2nd year of secondary vocational education
• teacher who helped implement the intervention

Exclusion criteria

• No students who participated in the co-creation process may participate in the group interview about receiving the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy Sleep Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This single-arm study involves three interventions: (A) a co-creation process with 6-8 purposefully selected students and teachers to adapt an existing healthy sleep intervention to local needs; (B) a one-time training for teachers on the importance of sleep and implementation of the intervention, supported by thematic manuals and follow-up consultations; and (C) school-wide implementation of the adapted healthy sleep intervention for all first- and second-year secondary students.

Treatment:

Other: Co-creation process

Other: Healthy Sleep Intervention

Other: Training for teachers