Effects of Sleep Hygiene Education on Sleep Health in Adults Ages 50-80

Black Hills State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Hygiene

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational video plus repeated education; Behavioral: One-time educational video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06129045

P20GM103443 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

BHSU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This will be a study looking at trying to change older adults' behavior in regard to good sleep hygiene practices. Investigators will assess the efficacy through subjective outcome measures and objective physiological markers of good sleep through data collected with wearable technology devices.

Full description

Older adults ages 50-80 will be recruited and placed into one of three groups. Group One will watch a one-time educational video on sleep hygiene, Group Two will watch the video plus be sent daily automated text messages to reinforce the education learned in the video, and Group Three will be a control group with no intervention. The participants in Groups One and Two will receive the education after two weeks of data tracking on a Fitbit device. They then will have four additional weeks of tracking. At the end of the study time of six weeks, all participants will return for follow-up testing. The sleep tracker will monitor the physiological markers of sleep provided by wearable technology on sleep efficiency, time in bed, time actually sleeping, and time spent at each stage of sleep.

Enrollment: 125 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• own a smartphone with the capability of receiving text messages.

Exclusion criteria

• an untreated diagnosed sleep disorder such as insomnia or obstructive sleep apnea
• inability to wear the device on their wrist

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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125 participants in 3 patient groups

Group One, Video

Experimental group

Description:

One-time sleep hygiene education

Treatment:

Behavioral: One-time educational video

Group Two, Video Plus Texts

Experimental group

Description:

One-time sleep hygiene education plus repeated education through automated text messaging

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational video plus repeated education

Group Three,

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group with no intervention assigned