Effect of a Sleep Hygiene-based Intervention on Sleep Quality and Mental Health in Medical Students

Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Students, Medical; Sleep Quality; Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Online sleep hygiene-based intervention; Behavioral: In-person sleep hygiene-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07043530

Fmed-07-25

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate whether an online sleep hygiene programm is as effective as a face-to-face programm in improving sleep quality and mental health in medical students.

Enrollment: 78 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a medical student enrolled in the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan.
• Having poor sleep quality according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.
• Having at least one electronic device with Internet access.
• Having time availability.
• Having signed the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Being in their year of Internship or Social Service.
• Being pregnant.
• Having children of any age.
• Being under psychological therapy.
• Regulary consuming sleep, depression or anxiety medication.
• Working the night shift.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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78 participants in 2 patient groups

In-person intervention

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: In-person sleep hygiene-based intervention

Online intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online sleep hygiene-based intervention